The stuff is in almost half of all products on U.S. supermarket shelves ... has caused mass deforestation in Malaysian and Indonesian rainforests. These are some of the most biologically diverse ...

Rainforests account for around 20 percent of all the photosynthesis that takes place on land. Because of that, they are a major sink for carbon dioxide. Rainforests are often described as the ...

Map of Life is a global database that tracks the distribution of known species. It is now used by world leaders to monitor, research, and create policies that protect species worldwide. The five-year ...

In densely vegetated areas like rainforests, then, the leaves absorb the vast majority ... Image courtesy of NASA/NOAA. The maps aren't just made for visual appeal, though. This data has real-world ...

Barely any sunlight reaches the floor of a tropical rainforest, but the space-based probe will be able to image all the way to the ground. That’s because it will carry a new P-band synthetic ...

See All Key Ideas Researchers have compiled the first-ever carbon map of rainforests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC is home to 60 percent of the Congo rainforest ...

A new map has revealed Britain’s surprising number of rainforests, which can be found from Cornwall in the south and all the way up to the isles of Scotland. According to Country Living ...

International agreements, 'debt for nature' swaps and selective logging and replanting of trees can all be used to help reduce deforestation. Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent ...

Current space-based radars are unable to penetrate the canopy of rainforests to take detailed measurements of the trees. But the ESA’s new satellite is equipped with a special new radar system ...

While they may be all but lost, Britain is hiding a ... these habitats have declined by using the interactive map below. Selecting the rainforest zone layer will reveal the areas of the UK where ...