Countries that are home to the world's three major rainforests agreed on Saturday to cooperate to overcome deforestation and safeguard biodiversity but fell short of a concrete alliance to protect ...

Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them The basins are home to two thirds of Earth's biodiversity, but rapid destruction is releasing planet-warming carbon dioxide ...

The following is Mongabay’s annual recap of major tropical rainforest storylines. This year, the list is more concise than in the past. Previous year-in-reviews: 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | The 2010s ...

Last week, Mongabay published a recap of the major trends in the world’s tropical rainforests for 2023. Here’s a brief look at some of the key issues to monitor in 2024. These include: Brazil ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - rainforests and deserts. BBC.

A rainforest consists of two major areas. The very top part is called the canopy, which can be as tall as 98 feet to 164 feet (30 to 50 meters). This area is comprised of the tops of trees and vines.

Intact rainforests across tropical Africa continued to remove carbon from the atmosphere before and during the 2015-2016 El Niño, despite the extreme heat and drought. Theyl removed 1.1 billion ...

Tropical rainforests (dark green) still cover much of central and west Africa. Vzb83 / wiki, CC BY-SA. So what did cause these rainforests to collapse? It turns out the answer was not humans, but ...

Now a new resource boom is under way. Indonesia is already the world’s biggest producer of nickel, a metal that is—among other uses—vital for building high-performance batteries.