For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

A study that dug into the history of the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous ... Dolores Piperno/Smithsonian Phytoliths are microscopic plant fossils All three were located at least ...

The Amazon rainforest is unarguably one of the mysteries ... It is a home to over 40,000 plant species, 3,000 kinds of fish, 430 types of mammals, 1,300 bird species, and an awesome number of ...

Water is the fundamental element that nourishes the Amazon rainforest. Its rivers are home ... liquid that seeps from some hallucinogenic plants are associated with the primordial insemination ...