A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser ...

Covering more than two million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides ... of branches that make up the canopy layer. A few trees grow even taller and poke ...

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

“Every giant tree is like an island in an ocean of trees ... percent of Amazon life, including the squirrel monkey (left) and banded aracari (right), dwells in the rainforest canopy.

The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river ... vertically in the trees, above the shaded forest floor - in the layers. Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors ...

The Amazon rainforest is around 4 million square ... This is because the canopy of the trees is so thick that it blocks out most of the light from the sun. Rainforests are very humid because ...

A new study finds that high in rainforest trees, insects live in ecosystems ... When studying insects in the Amazon, most entomologists cast their eyes down, to the intricate pathways of moss ...

These are mainly fast-growing trees that establish themselves early as a rainforest grows up. The same cannot be said for the trees that make up the canopy ... is worst in the Amazon.

SAO PAULO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating ... of the Amazon have the biggest, densest trees and the most continuous canopy cover ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly ... looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. The Department of Energy axes ...