Rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could influence the temperature and precipitation over the Tibetan plateau 15,000 kilometres away. Saini Yang at Beijing Normal University in China and ...

Though not invasive in India where it is native, Himalayan ginger can completely transform a Hawaiian rainforest like it has in this section at 4,000-foot elevation above Haiku. Inset: Ginger ...

Meanwhile, vast swathes of trees are dying in the Amazon due to drought as well as fires ravaging the rainforest. The "lungs of the Earth" now emit more carbon than they absorb, according to ...

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But his efforts to save the rainforest could be scuppered by a right-wing Congress, experts say. The first significant reduction in forest clearing came in April, when Amazon deforestation fell 68 ...

Days of relentless rain in India’s Himalayan region have killed at least 72 people this week, a government official said Thursday, as a heavy monsoon triggered landslides and flash floods that ...