As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

Tropical rainforests mainly occur inside the world's equatorial regions ... The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river basin of South America. Over half of this ...

The world's largest rainforest, the Amazon ... the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa, covers 780,000 square miles. This rainforest spans six countries: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon ...

Today, after hours of baking beneath the hot equatorial sun ... The Congo Basin encompasses the world’s second largest rainforest, behind the Amazon, spanning about 500 million acres across ...

Most of the basin is covered by the Amazon Rainforest which is a dense tropical forest. As the Amazon River flows through the equatorial region, the basin witnesses both humid and rainy climate ...

the flying rivers will weaken enough that a rainforest simply will not be able to survive in most of the Amazon Basin. Instead it will collapse into scrubby savanna, possibly in a matter of decades.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is pressuring the government’s environment agency Ibama to drop its objections to allowing state-controlled oil energy Petrobras to drill for oil in the ...

The Belgian empire invaded the Congo rainforest during the late 19th ... Almost all of the largest forests—in the Amazon basin, mainland Southeast Asia, and the islands in and around Indonesia ...

A man camping in the Amazon rainforest shared the moment he was woken up by leaf cutter ants ripping apart his tent. Conservationist Paul Rosolie was resting in the world's largest rainforest when ...