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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coral reefs are very much the rainforests of the oceans ... their alteration to calcite will be reduced (Figure 5). Under these circumstances, and ones in which corals are preserved in marine ...

with nearly half the 3,200 or so described species inhabiting the New World tropics. One leaf in the Ecuadorian rainforest where this story was photographed could easily harbor more treehopper ...