Mainstream climatologists predict a 15% fall in rainfall over the Amazon if it is stripped of its rainforest ... One telling example relates to the wettest equatorial rainforest in the world - the ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In 2019, unprecedented wildfires destroyed thousands of square miles of Amazon rainforest, roughly the size of New Jersey. The loss of biodiversity and invaluable habitats, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tropical rainforests mainly occur in the World's equatorial regions ... The Neotropical Rainforest Realm The Amazon River Basin covers some 40% of the South American continent and dwarfs all ...

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 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.

Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. By comparison, the Amazon contains 519 million hectares (2 million sq miles) of primary rainforest. Congo Basin forests make up the second largest massif of unbroken ...