The Amazon Rainforest has earned the title "The Lungs of the Earth" for a vital reason: it produces a staggering 20% of the world's oxygen. This expansive forest stretches across several South ...

Trekking through the Amazon rainforest is something that’s high up on many travellers’ ‘to do’ lists. But this is not the only tropical rainforest with natural beauty to behold.

It’s one of the most fascinatingly species-rich environments in the world, and new research published in the journal Science ...

What is a rainforest habitat? A rainforest habitat is an area of land that is covered in a thick canopy of trees. A tropical rainforest is different from a temperate rainforest because it is hot ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that humans lived in tropical rainforests 150,000 years ago, around 100,000 years earlier than previous evidence suggested.