A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing ...

“Brazil nuts are one of the richest food ... Though classified as a seed botanically, pine nuts (or pignoli) fall into the tree nut category in the FDA’s outline of major food allergens ...

New research reveals that forests along Brazil’s rivers have served as natural corridors, enabling tree species to migrate between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for millions of years. Despite ...

Study reveals how human history—from Indigenous stewardship to colonization—shaped the genetic diversity of Brazil Nut trees in the Amazon.

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers ... where most rainforest trees cannot survive. Until now, it was thought that tree species only passed between the Amazon and the Atlantic forests during periods ...

eating leaves from only a few tree species and processing their food more slowly than any other vertebrate. Despite their unique adaptation to their environment, sloths are listed among the top 10 ...

Forests flanking Brazil’s rivers ... where most rainforest trees cannot survive. Until now, it was thought that tree species only passed between the Amazon and the Atlantic forests during ...

It could be animals that feed on pine nuts. But also, and more likely, it could be humans,” argues the researcher. He continues: “There are now several studies that show evidence of human management ...