Forest on a plateau in a bauxite concession is shown at Nassau Mountains in North Suriname in this handout courtesy of Hans ter Steege taken in 2003. REUTERS/Hans ter Steege/Handout via Reuters Forest ...

When Brazilian forest engineer Eric Bastos Görgens stood at the base of an Amazon tree he had been scouting for three years, he couldn't help but reflect on the tree's magnitude — and his size in ...

The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world — about 10 percent of all known species on Earth dwell there — but only a few dozen of the Amazon's thousands of tree species rule ...