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 ...

An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35 ...

Water is the fundamental element that nourishes the Amazon rainforest ... and cultural life surrounding water in the tropical rainforest. In the northwest sector of the forest, specifically ...

President Lula has pledged to end deforestation in the Amazon by 2030 The ... carbon dioxide cycles. The rainforest is home to about three million species of plants and animals, and one million ...

The Amazon region holds the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is home to plant and animal species that are still being discovered by scientists. Most of its millions of square ...

The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America. More than half of the Earth's species of animals and plants live in tropical rainforests, even though rainforests only cover a ...

When most of us think about clearing away the Amazon ... of the rainforest have been razed for cattle pastures, roads and ...