When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

The discovery, made in a remote village in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest interior, included seven urns, two of which were larger ...

The urns pose plenty of still-unanswered questions about the people that once lived there and made the pots. Shortly after locals found the cache of mysterious containers, a team of archaeologists ...

Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Image by Wikimedia commons. The Cache River National Wildlife Refuge contains some of the oldest trees in the eastern United States, with bald cypress specimens ...

In China, trees over 100 years old are classified as “ancient trees”, with a total of 5.08 million registered nationwide. Researchers analysed a database of 46,966 ancient trees from 5,125 ...

But life isn't easy for these ancient trees. They're under siege from a variety of threats: rising seas, insect infestations, wildfires and increasingly erratic weather patterns. Unlike most ...

Why Ancient Trees Matter These trees are critical in regulating Earth’s climate. A U.S. study revealed that just 3% of the largest trees in a forest can store up to 42% of the forest’s carbon.

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Interestingly, the segment of the river near the tree showed no signs of erosion -- a fact the local villagers saw as miraculous. They believed the tree possessed special powers that protected them ...

Most trees don’t ask for much attention. They grow slowly and mind their own leafy business. But among Earth’s 73,000 tree species, some are rare and legendary. They stand out not because they ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal.

An ancient oak tree thought to be more than 400 years old has been cut down in what has been called a "depressing" and "devastating" incident in north London.