Home to three million species of plants and animals ... from the Justice Ministry — which protected the rights of Amazon forest tribes — to the Agriculture Ministry, which promotes farming ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ramp ...

As the world’s largest remaining coastal temperate rainforest, it has a huge role in contributing to the world’s oxygen ...

The Amazon rainforest is estimated to have 390 billion individual trees and innumerable species of plants and animals. Canopy ...

The Amazon rain forest covers more than two million square ... More than a third of the world's species—mostly plants and insects—make their home in the rain forest. But with the help of ...

By Fernanda Wenzel In 2024,a police raid on Brazil’s largest producer of carbon credits marked the lowest point yet in the long reputation crisis of REDD projects. Major companies that had bought ...

The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America. More than half of the Earth's species of animals and plants live in ... animals live on the forest floor. Most rainforest animals ...

Although only a small part of the original forests remains, it is still one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, second only to the Amazon. The forest is home to around 20,000 species of ...