Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere ...

Tropical forests may look like a uniform sea of green from above, but new research shows that carefully measured differences in forest structure and function can help explain how birds use existing ...

In a recent study published in New Phytologist, researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered how Amazon rainforest canopy trees manage the intense sunlight they absorb—revealing resilience ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Airborne maps of leaf chemistry across Peru's forests line up with differences in the birds living there, from body size to ...

Detail of a laser-derived terrain model showing an Aquiry ditched enclosure and associated embankments in southwest Amazonia. Figure from Parssinen, M., Kalliola, R., Ranzi, A. et al., Over 20,000 ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world’s ills, too. A new study, using NASA laser technology from the ...

David Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to ...