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 ...

The Amazon Rainforest is often hailed as a medicinal treasure trove, with over 25% of modern medicines derived from its myriad plants. Yet, many species remain understudied, holding the potential ...

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

Our guide grew up in the rainforest; it was his world ... Bill Frist, MD. The Amazon is home to thousands of plants with medicinal properties, many of which we have yet to discover.

This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very warm! Plants grow well here because it's so hot and wet. This tree has its own microhabitat.

Rainfall triggers bursts of natural nanoparticles, which contribute to cloud formation and additional precipitation over the ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... home to about three million species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy ... director of the Hong Kong Observatory. He explains that plants play an important role in regulating the levels of carbon dioxide ...