Copaiba Oil: The Amazon Bioeconomy That Keeps the Forest Standing
Copaiba oil is tapped without felling the tree and feeds a global chain of natural cosmetics, sustaining the income of thousands of Amazonian families.
Flora
The Amazon Kapok Tree Pumps a Thousand Liters of Water a Day and Steers the Rains
A single adult Ceiba pentandra sends more than a thousand liters of water from deep soil into the sky each day, feeding the flying rivers that carry rain across South America.
The First Plant on Land: How Life Left the Ocean and Turned Earth Green
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’s book records 100 Amazon plant discoveries
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.
The Amazon’s Giant Trees Hold Almost All the Carbon, and They Fall First
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.