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.

An example of that is the recent discovery of a 250-year-old lost city within Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which Brazil's Metropoles publication has detailed in a recent report. According to the ...

Washington State University will build a new $18 million plant growth facility to improve research at its Wenatchee Tree Fruit and Extension Center. Groundbreaking is tentatively set for July 1 ...

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 ...

Almost all of world’s wine production depends on the common grape vine Vitis vinifera, with over 5000 cultivars of the species producing a range of flavours. Along with wine, grapes are also used to ...

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Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest ... tens of thousands of plant species, several thousand ...

The palm, which is now the rarest plant in the Eden Project’s Rainforest Biome, had previously been grown at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, but needed to be relocated due to its size. The garden ...

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In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location ...

The Tigers are based in Gwangju, the heart of the liberal Honam region, and the Lions represent the southeastern city of Daegu, a conservative stronghold located in the Yeongnam region. Their battles ...