This was about 6 million square miles ... rainforest exists vertically in the trees, above the shaded forest floor - in the layers. Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors its own unique ...

Found on every continent except Antarctica, rainforests are ecosystems filled with mostly evergreen trees ... layer of vegetation roughly 20 feet (6 meters) thick, houses most of the rainforest's ...

Typically, rainforests are lush, humid, hot stretches of land covered in tall, broadleaf evergreen trees ... of the 6 million square miles (15 million square kilometers) of tropical rainforest ...

Tropical rainforests ... Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent, the canopy, the under canopy and the forest floor. There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to ...

The Botanical Garden’s Rainforest Adventure, opening Saturday and running through Sunday, April 26, overflows with layers and layers of tropical ... walk through the trees get taller.

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover ... vanishing every 6 seconds, according to ...

The unified stomatal optimization (USO) series models have shown obvious biases in predicting stomatal conductance (gsw) of tropical rainforest trees, especially under low vapor pressure deficit ...

Brazil, the country with the largest portion of tropical rainforest, had the highest rates of deforestation globally. It accounted for more than 40 percent of tree loss globally, followed by the ...