Sometimes referred to as "the last biotic frontier," canopy treetops have only become a viable subject of research over the past few decades as a handful of pioneers — Nadkarni among them — began to ...

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 ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...

Competition will occur between organisms in an ecosystem when both try to use the same resource and the resource is in limited supply. Animals compete for food, water and space to live. Plants ...

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has hit a six-year high, the national space agency, Inpe, reports. Some 3,988 square kilometres (1,540 square miles) of land were cleared in the ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

In 1945 grey squirrels were only found in central Southern England and in small numbers on the East coast of Northern England (1 mark). By 2000 they had spread throughout England and Wales (1 mark).

President Lula promised to restore the Amazon rainforest and chase down climate criminals during his speech at climate summit COP27 in 2022. Rainforest destruction had surged to a 12-year high ...

The world’s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from? https://p.dw.com/p/4l0lJ Funds ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left with scrub," conservationists have warned. WWF's biennial Living Planet ...

BRASILIA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to visit the Amazon rainforest and meet Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before they attend the G20 summit in Rio de ...

Based in Brazil, his investigative reporting on destruction of the Amazon rainforest under ex-President Jair Bolsonaro won 2021 Best Reporting in Latin America from the Overseas Press Club of ...