An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

They also support plant and animal life (50 percent ... plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of the world's diet originating from these lush, tropical areas.

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. Leticia Yawanawa has an ambitious plan ...

The Museu da Amazônia - MUSA, a patch of preserved rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, is 1.5 hours by river away from the XPRIZE Rainforest competition site. Scientists studied its rich biodiversity to ...

But, until recently, there weren’t precise figures to quantify the diversity of plant life on islands ... endemic species because they are large, tropical and have a lot of different habitats.

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 ... driven way of life," Lonely Planet ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues ...