Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the port of Igarapé da Fortaleza, in the far north of Brazil, dock workers unload large orange-red sacks from small wooden ...

Just a few species could determine the future of tropical forests by dispersing seeds that are essential for their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it's true that a couple in Brazil planted more than 2 million trees over a 20-year period, they reportedly received help ...

Under Brazil's Amazon rainforest canopy, hundreds of transparent plastic panels hang between tree trunks to starve a hectare of land of half the water it normally receives. Scientists are creating ...

Almost 85% of the world’s largest orange-growing area will have to be replanted over the next six years because the trees are susceptible to “citrus sudden death” disease, according to an industry ...

After nearly 200 years without a confirmed sighting, a rare Brazilian tree species called the Pernambuco holly has been found in northeastern Brazil. The team located four trees, two male and two ...

Almost half of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna has been deforested, and restoration proposals now center largely on planting trees in the degraded areas. However, as a grassland, and not a degraded forest, ...

A species of small holly tree that was last seen nearly two centuries ago and was feared extinct has been rediscovered pluckily clinging to life in an urban area in northeastern Brazil, scientists ...

The Brazilian government has been accused of intentionally chopping down 100,000 Amazon trees in the northern state of Pará, as part of a plan to build a four-lane motorway close to the city of Belém, ...

At the port of Igarapé da Fortaleza, in the far north of Brazil, dock workers unload large orange-red sacks from small wooden boats. Small dark berries scatter around the dock, staining everything ...