Save the rainforest!

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

It may be the next rainforest, in terms of pharmaceuticals.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

81. RainForest ReGeneration Institute, Washington D.C., United States of America

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

So I said, Well, you've got to make a rainforest ice cream.

It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rainforest.

loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species exinctions.

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

Conscious of the negative ecological impact of the hurricane on the coastal region and the inland rainforest,

You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the rainforest that just springs back to life.

Several ecosystems in Brazil need to be protected, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic forest.

Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest. A well designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.

And what happened then was the sponsor gave revenues to Ecosia, and Ecosia is giving 80 percent of those revenues to a rainforest protection project.

In Indonesia, the fires covered more than 1 million hectares of rainforest, producing a thick, smoky haze that blanketed much of south east Asia for several months.

Or for that matter, if you look at the genetic level, 60 percent of medicines were prospected, were found first as molecules in a rainforest or a reef.

Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees continued to help repatriate Rwandan refugees from the rainforest of the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Or for that matter, if you look at the genetic level, 60 percent of medicines were prospected, were found first as molecules in a rainforest or a reef.

And by linking these together, we could have 90 percent of the site as a rainforest, instead of only 10 percent of scrubby trees and bits of road around buildings.

The oil industry is seen as the biggest destroyer of Ecuador apos s 13 million hectares of rainforest inhabited by eight groups of indigenous people (Texaco had 330 wells in Ecuador.

The Indians had been gradually driven from the fertile lands along the Pacific coast towards the central highlands and finally to the rainforest in the east, which was ill suited to agriculture.

And what these images are you'll see them at the start of the slide show there's only about four images but it's of a little bear that lives in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Redwood rainforest is incredibly difficult to move through, and even today, individual trees are being discovered that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

The 8,000 acre park, which spreads over three islands, protects the only mixed species paleotropical rainforest in the United States and includes 1,000 acres of the finest coral reef in the Territory.25

The difference with Ecosia though is that, in Ecosia's case, it draws the revenues in the same way, but it allocates 80 percent of those revenues to a rainforest protection project in the Amazon.

A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships.

At its thirteenth session, an indigenous representative told the Working Group about the national parliament apos s approval of a contract with a logging company for an area of over 1 million hectares of rainforest.

And in a place where we thought no life at all, we find more life, we think, and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest, which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all.

Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected entirely protected in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood National Park.

In this context, I should like to highlight the initiative led by Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea of creating a Rainforest Coalition to protect all forests and ensure payment for the environmental services that they provide us.

We found a global atmospheric watchtower there, in the middle of the rainforest, and hung hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scientific equipment off this tower, to look for isoprene, and of course, other things while we were there.

We found a global atmospheric watchtower there, in the middle of the rainforest, and hung hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scientific equipment off this tower, to look for isoprene, and of course, other things while we were there.

This is a picture of Tim, who, right when I snapped this picture, reminded me, he said, Jessica, the last lab group I worked in I was doing fieldwork in the Costa Rican rainforest, and things have changed dramatically for me.

The red bars correspond to the likelihood that a man will die at the hands of another man, as opposed to passing away of natural causes, in a variety of foraging societies in the New Guinea Highlands and the Amazon Rainforest.

In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team one of thousands who contributed taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule.

Others emphasize a buildup of combustible materials. The nature of such fuel accumulations runs the gamut, including swamp drainage in Indonesia, rainforest destruction in Amazonia, self thickening woods in American wildlands as a result of fire exclusion, and everywhere the intrusion of urban sprawl and fire prone houses.

After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock. As a result, the new pasture land or farmland is soon abandoned, with no prospect for regeneration of the original forest and its unique ecosystems.