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 ...

Brazil, where most of the Amazon sits, lost more tropical forest ... were not the only group who gave in to the lure of turning rainforest into cash. Peru’s government amended its forestry ...

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 ...

More than 5,000 miles away from the infamous Amazon Rainforest, the Congo Basin sits in Central Africa ... Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The rainforest is made up of a ...

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 ...

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.

Parts of the Amazon rainforest is suffering its worst drought ... The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world's sixth largest by water volume. Madeira River, another ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical ... More information: Suqin Zhang et al, Reduced rainfall over the Amazon basin in an idealized CO2 removal scenario: Remote dynamic processes ...

The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost ... While overall carbon absorption in the Amazon basin remains positive when considering only intact areas, the inclusion of forest ...