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What are the largest rainforests in the world?
By Patrick Pester last updated
Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

Even a slight slowdown of key Atlantic currents poses a 'stunning risk' to rainforests
By Ben Turner published
A slowing Atlantic current could have a devastating impact on the planet's rainforests, a new study warns.

Indigenous funeral urns discovered on human-made islands in Amazon rainforest
By Lobato Felizola published
Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs and turtles.

'It's like trying to grow a tree in an oven': Gold mining is sucking the Amazon rainforest dry
By María de los Ángeles Orfila published
Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest
By Sascha Pare published
Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds spiritual significance for Indigenous people.

How we found the northern green anaconda, a new species of the heaviest snake on Earth
By Bryan G. Fry published
The northern green anaconda has been identified as a new species after genetic analysis showed it split from its southern counterpart 10 million years ago.

Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn
By Ben Turner published
Data collected by the International Space Station has revealed a small fraction of leaves in the world's tropical rainforests are already exceeding peak temperatures, and scientists warn that this could increase.

Watch sloth fight off ocelot in incredibly rare footage from deep in the Amazon rainforest
By Richard Pallardy published
The footage from a camera trap in Yasuní Biosphere Reserve in eastern Ecuador appears to be the first time a fight between a sloth and an ocelot has been caught on film.
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