YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Why did the kinkajou cross the road? And what’s a kinkajou, anyway? One of the mammals — which look like a cross between a monkey and a tiny bear — was found far from its normal rainforest habitat this week at a highway rest stop amid the rolling sagebrush plains of […]
A group of hikers are preparing for a charity challenge through a tropical rainforest. Raising funds for the Stars Appeal – Salisbury Hospital’s Charity – the group of 34 people will set off on their walk to the lost city of Teyuna, Colombia, on 20 April. The challenge will include walking around in 30 degree […]
The Brazilian and the French presidents have announced a plan to invest one billion euro (£857 million) in the Amazon, including parts of the rainforest in neighbouring French Guiana. The two countries’ governments said in a joint statement that the money will be spread over the next four years to protect the rainforest. It will […]
By Ueslei Marcelino BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil and France on Tuesday launched an investment program to protect the Brazilian and Guyanese Amazon rainforest involving 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in private and public funds over the next four years. The announcement was made during French President Emmanuel Macron’s three-day visit to the South American country, […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world. A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon to search for […]
Eight- to 25-day train trips are now bookable in Peru, Argentina, and Ecuador. Exploring South America by rail just got a whole lot easier. Independent train vacation company Railbookers announced that it launched itineraries on the continent by debuting 21 new itineraries, all available to book now. While the trips are all centered around Peru, […]
Archaeologists working deep in the Amazon rainforest have discovered an extensive network of cities dating back 2,500 years. The highly structured pre-Hispanic settlements, with wide streets and long, straight roads, plazas and clusters of monumental platforms were found in the Upano Valley of Amazonian Ecuador, in the eastern foothills of the Andes, according to a […]
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S. Kehinde Kumayon and his assistant clear low […]
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Habitat for a dwindling population of critically endangered African forest elephants is under threat, a casualty of the world’s appetite for chocolate. Deforestation driven by planting cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, is whittling down Omo Forest Reserve, a protected rainforest in southwestern Nigeria that helps combat climate change […]