For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...

An international team of researchers has suggested a "wild" new theory to explain the creation of these mysterious ancient ...

The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

This research challenges assumptions about large-scale monoculture agriculture and how it was thought to be impossible in the ...

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...