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.

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The Museu da Amazônia - MUSA, a patch of preserved rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, is 1.5 hours by river away from the XPRIZE Rainforest competition site. Scientists studied its rich biodiversity to ...

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

“The same applies to the Southern Andes, where you’ll find Lake Titicaca, Arequipa, and the Colca Canyon; and to the Amazon, if you want to trek through the rainforest on dry land.” But if ...

Since the start of the 21 st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ...

The Amazon, sometimes called the “lungs of the planet,” this year showed signs of further inching toward a much-feared tipping point, threatening the very existence of the world’s largest rainforest.

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...