As the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon is home to a staggering 3 million species. And a team of researchers just published their discovery of one more. In 2023, Evan Koch — a ...

However, not every tropical rainforest can claim exact characteristics when compared by region or realm and there are rarely clear defining boundaries. Many may blend with adjoining mangrove ...

A healthy tropical rainforest is the world's most spectacular example of a living, functioning ecosystem and the ultimate example of biodiversity. Just How Diverse are Tropical Rainforests?

This swath of tropical rainforest, which forms part of the upper ... The specimens documented so far are orange in color with brown markings on some parts of the body, such as the ends of the ...

If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical rainforest could see widespread tree deaths, or could transition to a new state, becoming drier, savanna-like woodlands. That would devastate some of ...

A new study shows a 10% increase in tropical rainforest loss in 2022 — a troubling sign as the global community struggles to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement. That’s the ...

Some of the other animals found in tropical rainforests are snakes, frogs, birds, cougars, gorillas, chameleons, jaguars, and turtles. Here are 17 animals that only live in the Amazon Rainforest.

They analyzed organisms ranging from microscopic mites and earthworms in the soil, to beetles and birds in tree canopies, comparing tropical rainforest with rubber and oil palm plantations in ...

"A Dream Come True" read the headline that ran atop an editorial published in the Topeka Daily Capital on May 24, 1974, the day the Topeka Zoo opened its Tropical Rainforest. The editorial ...

Biden was in Brazil on a trip that marked the first time a sitting U.S. president visited the world's largest tropical rainforest. All of these descriptions were inaccurate, however. We've ...

Scientists say the world's largest tropical rainforest is important for slowing global climate change by absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among projects supported ...

THE UK is home to it's own tropical rainforest - and it makes the perfect day out for rainy days. The Living Rainforest is in the tiny village of Hampstead Norreys in Berkshire. Run by the Trust ...