Rainforests in Central America that have remained largely untouched by modern human activities could bear the invisible ...

Scientists have found that ancient Maya farming, settlements, and canals may have left an ecological footprint that shaped ...

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Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...

Rainforests aren’t limited to hot tropical regions like the Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asia. When moisture-rich air ...

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction. "Using remote sensing and forest ...

The tropical rainforests harbor a multitude of living resources. Where, when and how did this wealth of biodiversity appear? To find answers to these fundamental questions, biologists have realized ...

Australia’s tropical rainforests have switched from being a net carbon sink to a net carbon source, releasing more carbon dioxide than they absorb, according to a study. David Clode Unsplash Around ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...

A decline in rainfall caused by climate change could endanger the planet’s rainforests by reducing soil moisture that’s essential to maintaining their biodiversity and resilience, according to a new ...

South American rainforests thrived during three extreme global warming events in the past, say paleontologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in a new report published in the Annual ...

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