High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world – here’s how we mapped them Jul 6, 2019 11:00 AM PHT University of Connecticut ...

Tropical Rainforest Location . Tropical rainforests mainly occur inside the world's equatorial regions. Tropical rainforests are restricted to the small land area between the latitudes 22.5 ...

Global tropical carbon map. Courtesy of ESRI ArcGIS Online Researchers have posted carbon stock data for the world’s tropical forests on ArcGIS Online, a web-based mapping platform developed by ...

On World Rainforest Day 2022, learn more about the significance of rainforests and the list of the world’s largest surviving tropical rainforests. A very special way to kick off # ...

The world’s rainforests are under siege. Climate change has driven the average temperature of the Amazon rainforest up by as much as 1.5 degrees Celsius. As a result of higher temperatures and ...

Tropical rainforests are centers of biodiversity, holding an estimated half of the world’s plants and animals, many of which have yet to be catalogued (some scientists estimate that it’s two ...

An analysis from nonprofit the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) found 34 percent of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover is gone. Thirty percent is in various forms of degradation ...

Learn about tropical rainforest biomes, deforestation and forest conservation in this geography guide for students aged 11 to 14 from BBC Bitesize.

Record-breaking forest loss in 2024: Tropical primary rainforest loss surged to 6.7 million hectares—nearly double the previous year—driven primarily by fire for the first time on record.