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 ...

The Amazon rainforest is a lush, verdant expanse teeming with diverse wildlife, including vibrant macaws, elusive jaguars, ...

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 is the world ... the understory layer is darker and stiller. Plants growing there often have extravagant, very fragrant flowers in order to attract pollinators without ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

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 ...

Many who have never experienced being in the Amazon ... numbers of plants and animals. It is, however, by no means the only, or for that matter the major reason why the Amazon Rainforest has ...

But Dr Kourtchev and colleagues are still working on identifying the exact health risk posed to the rainforest's plants. 'The Amazon is a place of unique vegetation and wildlife, so these PFAS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...