... -dollar fund launched in Britain on Tuesday will help preserve the Congo Basin by paying for projects that make the world's second largest rainforest worth more as a living resource than chopped down.
... of rainforest biodiversity by asking young museum visitors to draw their ideal rainforest, as part of a competition, and found that while children have a sophisticated understanding of rainforest ...
... the place that harbors the highest number of bat species ever recorded. In several acres of rainforest in the Amazon basin of eastern Ecuador, the authors have found more than 100 species of bats.
Brazil launches an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest but warns against foreign interference in its policy.
... other than trees—pollinators, seed predators, carnivores—contribute significantly to the lost of rainforest resilience? This and other biological quandaries remain. The authors exhort: "Although it is ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet.
We hear lots of concern about global warming and the world's rainforests, though they have even begun to thrive under warming conditions - but what about ancient rainforests, long before the Dawn of ...
... will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected, warn scientists in the most comprehensive review of the subject to date. ...
... in the tropics have been severely fragmented by human land use.
Meanwhile, tropical lowland rainforests, the warmest forests on Earth, face a challenge that has no parallel at higher latitudes. If ...
A new deal to protect the world's rainforests is proposed in a report drawn up for Gordon Brown.
... -led plan to set up a revolutionary multibillion pound to pay the owners of the world's rainforests for stopping deforestation. This fund is hoped to make a contribution to slowing down global warming ...
... in ecological communities remains elusive. The most complex biological systems—such as tropical rainforests—are the most important testing grounds for theories that attempt to generalize across ...
Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the journal Science. This study was conducted in the ...
The Prince of Wales gives support to the idea of charging developed nations a "utility bill" to maintain rainforests.
The genes of Australia's dwindling rainforests have revealed that they may be better equipped to handle climate change than previously thought.
