Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned ...

Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of ...

Using advanced satellite measurements, the research team systematically analyzed the climate and vegetation of each tropical region on Earth. The study’s findings suggest that rainforests are losing ...

New research from an international team of scientists, recently published in the journal Nature, finds that 830,000 square miles of deforested land in humid tropical regions—an area larger than ...

Some Amazon rainforest regions more resistant to climate change than previously thought Date: November 20, 2020 Source: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science ...

Columbia Engineering researchers found that the models have been largely over-estimating water stress in tropical forests. ... (CO2) emissions. Certain rainforest regions, such as the Amazon, ...

BRASILIA – Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate c… ...

The year 2024 saw significant developments in tropical rainforest conservation, deforestation, and degradation. While progress in some regions provided glimmers of hope, systemic challenges and ...

An analysis from nonprofit the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) found 34 percent of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover is gone. Thirty percent is in various forms of degradation ...

This satellite photo of South America shows the smoke above the fires in the Amazon rainforest on Aug. 11, 2019. The image was taken the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on ...

Phosphorous, which is plentiful in the Saharan Dust, is an essential element for growth in the tropical rainforest. Regions like the Amazon benefit greatly from the dust and so do our gardens locally.