New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...

A tropical rainforest is different from a temperate ... usually hot and sunny), rainforests can be quite dark even in the middle of the day. This is because the canopy of the trees is so thick ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss.

The new highway smack-dab down the middle of thick rainforest is known as Avenida ... Making up half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests, the forest is also one of the most biologically ...