Fifteen years ago, Brazilians did not even have a name for the lush, tropical rainforest that tumbles from seaside mountains to the ocean along much of the nation's Atlantic coast. They came up with

for they keep the rainforests' biodiversity high

Despite new measures to curb destruction of the world's largest rainforests in the Amazon basin, deforestation has increased by 30 per cent. Preliminary figures from satellite monitoring showed

A Japanese man was arrested in Sri Lanka for hunting butterflies in a protected rainforest. The man, who's name was not disclosed, was remanded for two weeks by a magistrate in the central town of

It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study

Environmentalists give us one more reason to save the rainforests from being axed

The popular image of termites as timber-munching pests needs to be overhauled. In tropical forests, the vast majority of termites do not conform to the stereotype, say researchers at the National

Remnant forests can affect growth of other trees in the vicinity, claims a new study

In an attempt to check the degradation of