For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The top emergent layer of the rainforest receives the most sunlight, while the forest floor at the bottom receives the least amount of sunlight. Each layer experiences different levels of water ...

home to about two-thirds of the rainforest, has plunged recently. Deforestation rates in the country dropped by 30.6% over the past year, hitting the lowest level since 2015. This decline is ...

Mato Grosso is Brazil's top grains producer The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest level in a decade this year, government data released on Friday showed, driven by ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy ... He explains that plants play an important role in regulating the levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere.