Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent, the canopy, the under canopy and the forest floor.

Sunlight filters through the dense canopy in scattered beams, while ferns and seedlings carpet the forest floor. The Daintree and other tropical rainforests, including those in the Amazon ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...