They also support plant and animal life ... remaining in the rainforest. Their reduced numbers are due to poachers and ...

For all that live in the rainforest, some adaptation is required to the conditions. That is all the more true with regards to flora and fauna. With so many different types of plants, animals and ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

Over half of this forest lies in Brazil, which holds about ... Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors its own unique plant and animal species interacting with the ecosystem around them.

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil’s lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ... to protect these animals – currently ...

The Amazon rainforest ... in Manaus, Brazil. In some forests, including many across the U.S., wildfires are essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems. Animals are adapted to cope with it ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for ... was a "loss" from deforestation since animals "will no longer be able to cross to ...

The CAFE-Brazil measurement campaign provided ... half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. "The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

Plants worldwide ... Field Experiment in Brazil), in which an international research team was collecting data on the chemical processes in the atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest.