Here, the new satellite reveals stunning variety within the tropical forest landscape. Green hues indicate forested areas; blue–purple tones suggest grasslands; and the red hues seen around Bolivia’s ...

"We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction." Scientists share ominous warning after studying world's rainforests: 'A wake-up call' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Incredible maps show all the UK's hidden rainforests ... READ MORE World's most dangerous road dubbed 'Death Road' with 1,000 sheer drops . A new map has shown where England's rainforests are ...

Learn about tropical rainforest biomes, deforestation and forest conservation in this geography guide for students aged 11 to 14 from BBC Bitesize.

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 ...

An analysis from nonprofit the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) found 34 percent of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover is gone. Thirty percent is in various forms of degradation ...

"If we're showing that one of these systems is moving toward a tipping point, that might make people wake up," Boulton said. For the 10% of known species that make their homes in the Amazon, loss ...

A new study in Biological Conservation has shown that edge forests and forest patches are more vulnerable to burning because they are drier than intact forests. Using eight years of satellite ...

A New Satellite Will Map the Carbon Content of Rainforests From Space, and It’s Set to Launch This Month The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the ...

Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data on Wednesday indicate huge swathes of the jungle that are most vital to the world's ...

using satellite imagery. Satellites could detect clear-cutting of the rainforest with great accuracy, but detecting the subtle changes caused by selective logging, which Asner describes as ...