Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it's true that a couple in Brazil planted more than 2 million trees over a 20-year period, they reportedly received help ...

A type of holly tree in Brazil that was believed to be extinct was rediscovered after 186 years. An organization called Re:wild said it was one of their "top 25 most wanted lost species." The ...

In northeastern Brazil, there is a tree so vast that visitors often mistake it for an entire grove. The paths wind beneath its canopy, multiple trunks rise from the ground, and sunlight filters ...

Pine nuts from the araucaria trees of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina are driving a chain of sustainable production involving more than a dozen municipalities from the mountain region of the ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, the distinctive candelabra shapes of Araucaria trees (Araucaria angustifolia) have defined landscapes at the southern edge of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Humans have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the port of Igarapé da Fortaleza, in the far north of Brazil, dock workers unload large orange-red sacks from small wooden ...

It’s night, and plant biologist Arthur Domingos de Melo is looking up at the open, ivory flowers of a tropical, hardwood tree. Though it’s the dry season in the arid, thorny Caatinga region of ...