The world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, spans 2.3 million square miles across nine South American countries. The second largest, the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa,... advertisement ...

New Guinea is home to at least 5% of the world's animal and plant species, including unique wildlife like tree-climbing kangaroos ...

For example, the Paris Agreement on climate change (2015) aims to protect the world’s forests. This happens when a country’s debt is reduced in exchange for rainforest conservation (protecting ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon ... half a million hectares of primary forest in 2022, accounting for 12.5% of total loss, mostly due to forest clearing for crop cultivation to ...

The Rainforests of the Atsinanana comprise six national parks ... This biodiversity reflects Madagascar's geological history and geographic placement. It is the world's fourth largest island and has ...

Approximately 6 percent of the world’s land surface is covered by rainforests with more than ... The center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily in Maalaea. For more information, call 270-7000.

The earliest human rainforest presence in the world had been placed at about 70,000 years ago in Southeast Asia. Bété I was discovered in the early 1980s. Stone artifacts unearthed there from ...