A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

Tropical forests play a crucial role in protecting the planet from some of the worst effects of global warming because they ...

ESA/M.PedoussautThis space probe will soon be sent into orbit to help scientists uncover the health of our world’s densest ...

Utah State University researchers are collaborating with other institutions to solve the ecological mysteries of seed ...

Using instruments on board, the Biomass satellite will be able to measure the woody trunks, branches and stems where carbon ...

Using modern dating methods, they were able to establish that these tools were used 150,000 years ago, in a dense forest environment. This discovery suggests that tropical forests were an ...

South America is blessed with the most dense and the largest forest of the world. The Amazon basin stand as a contiguous tropical rain forest which is the most dense one in the entire world.

The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion ...

The Caatinga is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil and is home to the largest contiguous area of seasonally dry ...