In Brazil’s Amazon ... s babassu palm tree is becoming one viable alternative to activities that are destructive. Even in a country that boasts the most species of trees anywhere in the ...

By one recent estimate, the trees of the Amazon rainforest pulled in carbon dioxide equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of most of the nine countries that own or border the forest between 1980 ...

Old palm trees on plantations that no longer bear fruit are often set on fire to be replaced by younger ones. Around 60% of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil. The number of fires between January ...

Called the "Angelim Vermelho" or  Dinizia excelsa. It's considered the tallest tree in the tropical Americas at a height of 290 feet.