The Colombian Amazon is now officially a person thanks to a group of youth activists
With a recent ruling, the Colombian Supreme Court has made Colombia the first country in South America to recognize...
73 million trees to be planted in largest reforestation project ever
Conservation International aims to plant 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon in the largest reforestation...
Casa Sanchez combines urban living with the lush Bolivian rainforest
Looking like a modest, one-story building when seen from the road, the Sanchez House actually boasts three spacious...
30 billion tons of stored carbon discovered in Congo peatland
At 3.7 million square kilometers, the Congo Basin contains some of the planet's largest tropical rainforests and...
Norway becomes the world's first country to commit to zero deforestation
Norway has become the first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation. The Norwegian parliament's Standing...
Canada just saved one of Earth's last temperate rainforests
When most people think ofrainforests, they think of a tropical jungle -- but rainforests can exist in temperate...
Innovative plant lamps draw energy from dirt and vegetation to light remote villages
Villages in the rainforests of Peru have a problem: many of them don't have access to a reliable electrical grid,...
INFOGRAPHIC: Why are rainforests so important?
"Save the rainforests!" is a call to action that most of us have come across at some point or another, whether...
