The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, ...

Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Würzburg researchers have investigated how animals react to this.

For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...

Riverside forests help trees migrate between Amazon and Atlantic forests, shaping biodiversity over millions of years.

A surprisingly trend was that we saw genetic diversity declining even among” many species that aren’t considered at risk, said co-author Catherine Grueber, a conservation biologist at the ...

Study reveals how human history—from Indigenous stewardship to colonization—shaped the genetic diversity of Brazil Nut trees ...

The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

While filming 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' documentary-makers encounters a new giant anaconda species that "may be the ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...