The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.
By one recent estimate, the trees of the Amazon rainforest pulled in carbon dioxide equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of most of the nine countries that own or border the forest between 1980 ...
one research group noted a “drastic ecosystem shift” that has reduced jungle to savanna. In the southeastern Amazon, which has been assaulted by rapacious cattle ranching, trees are dying off ...
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.
While trees are growing they absorb carbon dioxide ... They suggest that the Amazon rainforest - a vital carbon store, or "sink", that slows the pace of global warming - may be turning into ...