Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

They also support plant and animal life (50 percent of the ... species that live in the rich vegetation of the rainforest. Location: Amazon rainforests and nearby Pantanal Wetlands Size: 6 feet ...

A Brazilian biologist is now working to make the rainforest safer for the many primate species that call it home, CNN ...

Impending loss of the Amazon rainforest due to deforestation has concerned scientists ... on simplified models The reason for scientists to fear a tipping point was the importance of the vegetation ...

For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous peoples ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built ... vet and researcher at a university animal hospital that overlooks the site ...