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

There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the canopy layer. A few trees ...

“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.

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

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 ...

As a doctoral researcher in the School of Geography, she took on the task of organising and eventually leading an expedition into the Amazon rainforest ... trees. These were the dominant canopy ...

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.

In a pristine corner of the Amazon ... how the rainforest might respond to a drier future CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil -- A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly ...

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 ...