This continues to devastate the lands of Indigenous peoples and local communities, killing wildlife, and worsening the climate crisis. Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the ...
In the UK we get a lot of rain. But this habitat gets so much rain that they named it a rainforest. This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very ...
Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo says it has fall appeal with a major fundraising push to help revitalize its World Tropics Building. The South American rainforest exhibit opened back in 1992, according to ...
Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...
Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation ...
World leaders have pledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. But in Brazil's Amazon rainforest it has hit its highest level in over 15 years - and progress elsewhere is challenging.
Preserving the Amazon rainforest is of global importance in the fight against climate change, but it is under threat from forest fires, mostly started to clear land for agriculture. Early numbers ...
With an annual rainfall ranging from 140 to 170 inches, the Hoh Rain Forest is a lush, green wonderland, with mosses and ferns covering every tree and surface. According to the NPS, it is one of ...
The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left with scrub," conservationists have warned. WWF's biennial Living Planet ...