“A rainforest can spring up in one to three years — it can be brushy and hard to walk through,” said Matthew Fagan, a conservation scientist and geographer at the University of ...

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Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon.

While reporting on the first days of the 2020 burning season they found that agents of Brazil’s environmental crime enforcement agency had gone almost totally inactive, and that since President Jair ...

"We need to do all we can to restore and protect them [temperate rainforests] for future generations," he said, adding: "They are wet wonderful places, full of life." The announcement comes after ...

which works on rainforest protection and community land rights, told the BBC that while money to protect forests is important, this payment "risks being a public relations exercise". It points to ...

On the first trip of a sitting American president to the Amazon, President Biden promised new financial help to protect the ...

The task at hand was nothing short of grueling.  In the depths of the Amazon Rainforest earlier this year, it was a mad ...