A rainforest is a tropical ... native to the tropical rainforests of the Amazon River basin in South America. One of the largest and most beautiful plants in the world, the victoria amazonica ...

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator magnet and a symbol of the tropics. A vibrant plant with strikingly colourful bracts, it thrives in rainforest ...

The Amazon Rainforest, for example, has long been seen as a vital resource for combatting climate change. Long considered a “carbon sink,” the vast rainforest was capable of absorbing much of the ...

Two new scientific review articles by international teams of researchers paint a bleak picture of the state of the Amazon rainforest: The critical ecosystem is being damaged at an unprecedented ...

The mightiest rainforest in the world is shrinking ... Home to a staggering number of species of plants, animals, insects, and fungi, the Amazon holds a rich array of the life that exists on ...

The ground reveals one of the paradoxes of the rainforest. Renowned for its beauty and biodiversity, the life-giving nutrients of the forest are mostly stored in the trees and other plants ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

Such a shift would make the Amazon drier and warmer, reducing the rainforest's ability to absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis while increasing carbon dioxide emissions through plants and ...

EXPLORING the Amazon rainforest or going on an ... rise buildings and blocks of flats, with colourful flowers and towering tropical plants packed into a glass building. The indoor garden is ...

The ground reveals one of the paradoxes of the rainforest. Renowned for its beauty and biodiversity, the life-giving nutrients of the forest are mostly stored in the trees and other plants ...