40,000 plants, and 2.5 million insect species. And still counting. The staggering diversity of the lush Amazon rainforest remains, in many ways, a mystery. Why is this area of South America the most ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

A rainfrog, an amphibious mouse, and a “blob-headed” fish are only some of the 27 new species discovered deep Peru’s Amazon rainforest ... species living in this lush and heavily forested ...

Are you sure you want to visit a rainforest? With the whooping monkeys, the kaleidoscopic birds, and the immensely lush ...

accounting for about half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. “The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these emissions,” explains atmospheric ...

The Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia stretches lush and green across the horizon ... Farmers cut swathes of rainforest to make room for coca plants, stripping the land of native vegetation ...

It's believed about three million different species of plant and animal ... fires in the rainforest so far. So what does this mean for the many animals who call the Amazon home?

This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very warm! Plants grow well here because it's so hot and wet. This tree has its own microhabitat.

This would have been cooler than tropicla rainforests we might typically think of—such as the Amazon rainforest—but still able to support a rich, diverse ecosystem of plant and animal life.

A rainfrog, an amphibious mouse, and a “blob-headed” fish are only some of the 27 new species discovered deep Peru’s Amazon ...