About 470 million years ago, the first plants left the water for a world of bare rock. In doing so they reshaped the atmosphere, built the soil and turned Earth green.
Naturalist João Batista Fernandes launches in Brasília the book Onde andei valeu a pena, gathering 100 Amazonian plant species he identified across more than four decades of expeditions in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
A study in the Peruvian Amazon shows the largest trees store up to 93% of the carbon, and they are exactly the ones the logging industry prefers to cut.
