The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Amazon's Tallest Tree Has Been Discovered and It's Far Bigger than It Should Be, Baffling Scientists. Published Sep 12, ... Many of the tall trees were pretty close to the river, ...

For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for ...

As wildfires raged last month in the Amazon, a team of researchers was busy tracking down the rainforest’s tallest trees. During a 10-day journey that included trekking up the Jari River in ...

A boat navigates through the Manu river at the Manu National Park in Peru’s southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios. This 1.8 million hectares reserve is the largest National Park in Peru and ...

By Brett Walton Circle of Blue. A controversial dam that is under construction on an Amazon River tributary in Brazil may deliver less electricity than promised if trees in the wider rainforest ...

A new study estimates that the area of mangroves surrounding the mouth of the Amazon River, on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá, is at least 180 square kilometers (km 2) larger than is ...

Researchers on an expedition in the Amazon River Delta have found mangroves growing in freshwater — a phenomenon never before documented in deltas or coastal mangroves anywhere else in the world.

Some large trees such as Guarea grandifolia, an evergreen that can grow up to 50m (164ft) tall, seemed to struggle near the hottest parts of the river, for example. Overall, the heat seemed to ...

The Amazon is one of the most diverse places on Earth with more than 3 million species of animals and 2,500 species of trees calling the forest’s 2.72 million square miles home. Tangent ...