The combination of these two factors creates a very humid environment that is perfect for plants and animals to thrive. As such, tropical rainforests are home to some of the most diverse ...

for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density of the five deer species of the biome. This allowed them to measure the main factors that influence the ...

Given the economic uncertainty ahead, it’s difficult to anticipate how these factors will impact rainforests in coming months and years. 2020 and 2021 were two of the worst years on record in ...

The Amazon rainforest is on course to reach a crucial ... “We already knew about all these factors at play, but once we connected the pieces of this complex puzzle, the image was alarming ...

Climate change is involved. But researchers who study the rainforest say other factors have come together to exacerbate this crisis, which has cut river communities off from supplies including ...

The destruction of the world’s rainforests ramped up last year ... Tacking the palm industry has been a big factor, the report found. In Indonesia there has been a clamp down on new oil palm ...

Here are some factors driving destruction of the world's largest rainforest. Sign up here. Unlike wildfires in Europe or the United States, fires do not occur naturally in the humid, tropical ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.

That has made the rainforest more vulnerable to fast-spreading ... Bruno Kelly/Reuters Environmental factors are already changing the Amazon. Dry seasons are becoming longer, and average rainfall ...