Simultaneously, the Government of Guyana had announced the world’s first Paris Agreement corresponding adjustment, a significant step reported to the United ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Getting hit by lightning is not usually a good thing. But one tropical tree species seems to harness heaven’s wrath. Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and ...

How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large-statured trees. New Phytologist , 2025 DOI: 10.1111/nph.70062 Cite This Page : ...

But for at least one tropical tree species ... that being hit by lightning could have only negative effects on trees. “Your best-case scenario is that you’re kind of okay, and your worst ...

Most of this year’s 11,000-plus cases occurred in Brazil and Peru, where the virus is an old acquaintance, but it has also been found in 2024 in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama ...

The analysis highlighted that from 2001 to 2020, the world lost nearly 1.4 million hectares (3,459,475 acres) of trees due to mining — an area roughly the size the country of Montenegro. Nearly a ...

However, when Cadet searched through all 85 potted plants in her house ... is a professional photographer and had been on a work trip to Guyana, 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) away from their ...

A beautiful new species of clearwing moth that is native to Guyana has been described after it was discovered 7,000 kilometres away in Port Talbot, Wales. An unlikely sequence of events has led ...

The two of them spend entire days journeying through the jungle in search of giant trees, dead or alive. Their work began on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, home to a deeply studied tropical forest.

The report, Navigating Jurisdictional REDD+: A Pricing Guide for Tropical Forest Nations ... to 300 million tons of annual supply could come from jurisdictions in the ART-TREES pipeline by 2030 – six ...