“The Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest are the biomes with the most anuran species and the highest probability of an increase in both the frequency and intensity or duration of drought event ...

Off the back of new research, a new theory has sprung up: the forests of the Atlantic rainforest are constantly colonized by trees from the Amazon. They do this by growing and spreading along the ...

Forests flanking Brazil’s rivers act as “highways” that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for millions of years, new research shows.

Land use for cattle ranching, forestry for charcoal, and soybean plantations were the economic activities that most contributed to the devastation of the Atlantic forest over the past decade.

Parts of the mid-Atlantic were slammed by more than a foot of snow early Wednesday as forecasters warned “severe weather” could move into the New York City area overnight Thursday. A powerful ...

Tens of millions of years ago, the climate in the South Atlantic was much warmer and wetter than today, and capable of supporting a rainforest environment. This would have been cooler than ...