A rainforest is a tropical or subtropical forest that receives high amounts of precipitation. Typically found near the Earth's equator, where there is high rainfall and warm temperatures ...

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The three countries that are home to more than half of the world’s tropical rainforests — Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo — are pledging to ...

Brazil has secured its place as the most biodiverse country on Earth, home to nearly 13% of all known animal and plant ...

The Largest Tropical Rainforest . The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river basin of South America. Over half of this forest lies in Brazil, which holds about one ...

Discover the importance of rainforests, Earth's life-support system, and how you can help protect them for a sustainable ...

In the 1950s, Brazil found a use for it. The nation, leaping into the global economy, decided to construct a new capital city, a monument to Brazilian progress, in the center of the country.

The sun shines through the rainforest near Belem, Brazil, June 7, 2023. Picture Alliance via Getty Images This study is really the first to establish the limits of these tropical forest canopies ...

Instead, high temperatures seem to harm plants indirectly, by raising VPD and thus the dryness of the air. Plant leaves take in carbon dioxide via mouth-like leaf cells called stomata, but those ...

The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It is spread across nine countries in South America - Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana ...

Last year, the three countries lost 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres) of primary rainforest, largely led by Brazil, which cleared three times more forest than its runner-up, the DRC, and ...

Agroforestry closely resembles the way Indigenous peoples managed the lands that became Brazil for millennia. That was before the 20th century, when leaders of European descent began calling on ...

In the depths of the Amazon, Brazil is building an otherworldly structure. A complex of towers arrayed in six rings is poised to spray mists of carbon dioxide into the rainforest.