(PhysOrg.com) -- In a hunt for plants in the Amazon rain forest that have potential to be used for sustainable light-weight construction beams, electronic cases or other high-performance materials, ...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree on Friday formally creating the Amazon Fund to fight deforestation of the world’s largest rain forest.
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 30 (UPI) -- Ecuador has protected the largest percentage of its share of the Amazon rain forest and Peru the least, a study indicates.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world's largest remaining ...
... have discovered dozens of potentially beneficial bioactive microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically distinct that they may be the first ...
Vast swathes of "pristine" Amazon rain forest may actually have been sophisticated urban landscapes prior to the arrival of European colonists, anthropologists say.
... few--like antioxidant-rich acai, a wild palm fruit --ever reach international markets. Experts say fruits are a vital part of the Amazon's wealth and may provide important alternatives to timber.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A Brazilian official says deforestation of the Amazon rain forest increased by nearly 4 percent in the year up to July, the first increase in four years' time.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday.
... ) - The task of harvesting the secrets of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest that could help in the battle against cancer largely falls to Osmar Barbosa Ferreira and a big pair ...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said that rich Western nations should pay to prevent deforestation in the Amazon rain forest.
... bitter orange has been used in traditional Chinese medicine and by indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest for nausea, indigestion and constipation. Current uses of bitter orange are for heartburn ...
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier.
In the Brazilian Amazon rain forest, a nongovernmental organization is using satellites to uncover deforestation the Brazilian government doesn't find.
For an ongoing jaguar census, "spy camera" traps in the Amazon rain forest caught 75 jaguar pictures—and one very rare short-eared dog.
