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

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation ...

There are lots of different habitats all around the world. In this greenhouse, there are lots of plants you might find in a rainforest. A rainforest is an example of what we call a habitat.

The eight-mile stretch of new highway — dubbed Avenida Liberdade, or Avenue of Liberty — has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for world leaders to ...

Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops ...

Guyana now has the world’s highest expected oil production ... This is due to its vast rainforest; trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. The country has protected its ...

She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, fertility and birth rate issues around the world, multiple disease outbreaks in the U.S. and ongoing vaccination discourse.

Brazil is facing accusations of hypocrisy after cutting down large sections of the Amazon rainforest to construct ... more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in ...