World's rainforests act as rain-collecting umbrellas
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 12:21
in Earth & Climate
With billions of overlapping leaves, stretching sometimes for hundreds of feet above the ground, the canopies of the world's rainforests act like giant umbrellas – catching rain before it has a chance to reach the forest floor. It turns out that these arboreal umbrellas intercept almost 2 trillion gallons of rain each year, a new study that could improve our understanding of the impacts of climate change finds. Climate change - Rainforest - Environment - Impacts and Indicators - Activism