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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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