Shrinking Amazon forests may lose thousands of trees species
Sunday, November 22, 2015 - 05:20
in Biology & Nature
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A first-of-its-kind examination of the Amazon's trees found that as many as half the species may be threatened with extinction or heading that way because of massive deforestation. Among the more than 5,000 tree species in deep trouble: the ones that produce Brazil nuts and mahogany....