A team of scientists from the Field Museum of Natural History has just returned from one of Earth's most remote, undisturbed ...

Rainforests are often called the "world's largest pharmacy" because a quarter of natural medicines have been discovered within them. The world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, spans 2.3 million ...

A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year is nearly as important to the world’s vegetation as how ...

Plant emit an estimated 500 million tons of isoprene annually, and the Amazon rainforest is the source of 25 percent of these emissions.

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule ...

The results of their study which are published today (Tuesday 12 November) in the journal Earth's Future show that under the most pessimistic scenario, 68% of the world's temperate rainforest ...

WWF has recognized the Great Bear Rainforest in the western Canadian province of British Columbia as a Gift to the Earth, the global conservation organization’s highest accolade for globally ...

TODAY’S mega-fauna, Earth’s largest animals, pale in comparison to the giants that used to roam the Earth. Though that is ...