Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

They also support plant and animal life (50 percent of the ... species that live in the rich vegetation of the rainforest.

Explore one of the greenest places in the world, the rainforest. The warm, wet climate encourages lots of large green plants to grow. Green animals also live there - bugs, caterpillars ...

A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting ... canceled flights and a threat to plant and animal life. Dozens of uncontacted people ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat ... shelter and crucial spaces for reproduction. Numerous animal species could not survive without the kapok tree.

It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than 16,000 plant species. Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy. In the fight against pollution ...