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New technology is helping scientists to create 3D maps of tropical rainforests and ... are potentially game-changing when it ...

Rather having herds of explorers clamber around in the upper reaches of these forests to take measurements, researchers decided to use LiDAR to create a 3D map of these forests (press release).

The map above shows where rainforest biomes are located in the world. There is a link between climate, vegetation and biomes. Tropical hot wet climates are found close to the Equator where the ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting ...

The Amazon Rainforest teems with exotic, diverse wildlife, from energetic monkeys to colorful macaws to predatory jaguars. This ancient forest, rich in dense jungles and cascading waterfalls, is the ...

Scientists have quantified how much more fire-prone South America has become in recent decades, as several parts of the ...

Yet the growing awareness of the importance of the rain forest -both locally and globally- and the development of novel approaches to tropical forest management offer reasons for hope.

The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands ... advance across Brazil's Pantanal wetlands Amazon rainforest belongs to Brazil, says Jair Bolsonaro Watch ...

devastating swaths of the country's tropical forest and savannah. So what's happening exactly and how bad are the fires? Brazil - home to more than half the Amazon rainforest - has seen a high ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest ... as ecosystem processes and conservation. Tropical aboveground carbon is a crucial yet complex ...