The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was...
A new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century. Peatlands store vast quantities of carbon below the Earth’s surface – more than all...
The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, warmer...
The world’s most diverse forest, the Amazon, may host more than 10,000 records of pre-Columbian earthworks (constructed prior to the...
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and...
