For the first time, scientists have uncovered amber in Antarctica, a groundbreaking discovery that sheds light on the ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate—it also noticeably improves the health of humans who ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that climate change could endanger up to 68% of the world's temperate rainforests by 2100.

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

The goal of the deployment is to monitor and analyze rainforest health and digitally ... while helping with the preservation of biomes for future generations,” said Rodrigo Veloso, CEO of ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed ... But this unique and globally important biome ...

Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.

From there, rainforest stretches for hundreds of kilometres to the border with Brazil – and far beyond. This rainforest is the main reason Colombia ranks as the fourth most biodiverse country in ...

The Amazônia Revelada project, led by archaeologist Eduardo Neves, is using LiDAR technology to scan areas of the Amazon rainforest for lost structures. LiDAR, which employs lasers to map the ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...