Why Is the Rainforest In Danger? When you think of the rainforest, you probably think of monkeys, jungle plants, big snakes, and lots of rain. You may not think about oil, copper, and gold ...

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good ...

and these practices in particular could save millions of acres of rain forest every year. Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them Encouraging people who ...

PFAS, known as 'forever chemicals,' have infiltrated the Amazon. They resist decomposition, posing health risks like cancer ...

But in Brazil's Amazon rainforest it has hit its highest level ... a major contributor to global warming - so cutting down trees can have a big impact on climate change. The UN says 420 million ...

Brazil's vast rainforest absorbs huge amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, acting as what's known as a carbon sink. But the more trees cut down, the less the forest can soak up emissions.

Not just for food, water, wood and medicines, but to help stabilise the climate—150-200 billion tons of carbon is stored in the Amazon rainforest. The trees in the Amazon also release 20 billion ...

Wildfires in Bolivia are on track to set a record for the number of blazes this year, fueled by the destructive agricultural ...

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So far, the fires have destroyed more than 3 million hectares of rainforest, surpassing the ... which is very dense and tall," Rudon said. "The rain helped very little because the density of ...

There’s also a universal understanding that rainforest nations are central to eco-viability. Thus, we must assist those countries by properly valuing their trees. However, the public does not ...

The Yagirala rainforest in Walallawita comprises of 152 ... and fostering community awareness and engagement in conservation efforts. The trees to be planted include Wal del, Godapara, Wallapatta ...