By Mongabay.com Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the second-tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest, ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

In the depths of a Chilean rainforest stands the 'Gran Abuelo,' an approximately 5,400-year-old tree fighting for survival. A ...

In the depths of a Chilean rainforest stands the 'Gran Abuelo,' an approximately 5,400-year-old tree fighting for survival. A ...

Large eucalyptus farms are being built in Brazil for Apple's climate neutrality project. Ecologists criticize this.

Scientists studied nearly 100 trees struck by lightning in the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, a lowland rainforest in Panama, between 2014 and 2019. More than half of the trees struck directly ...

Most small-scale gold mining operations separate gold from ore by adding liquid mercury and then burning the mixture, releasing large amounts of mercury – a potent neurotoxin – into the air. Together, ...

Hundreds of saplings have been planted as part of a project to expand one of the South West’s last remaining temperate rainforests. Volunteers have planted 450 saplings from Wistman’s Wood, an ...