The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, towers over the crowns of the forest. The tree shapes the myths of the ...

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 by day is a place of plants, water, and silence. The overwhelming grandeur of the tropical rain forest lies in its subtlety. There are no herds of ungulates as on the Serengeti Plain ...

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 ...

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.

The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America. More than half of the Earth's species of animals and plants live in tropical rainforests, even though rainforests only cover a ...