Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.

Nearly half of Heliconia species—tropical plants vital to rainforest ecosystems—are at risk of extinction, according to new ...

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto As night fell across a rainforest in northwestern Ecuador, a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue perched on some foliage and began calling.

I’ve also hiked through the rainforest in other Central and South American countries, but it’s been high on my list for a while to experience the rainforest of all rainforests: the Amazon.

A tropical rainforest is different from a temperate rainforest because it is hot and wet due to lots of rain. The plants and animals that live in a tropical rainforest are adapted to live in ...