The drop in global temperature also reduces the tropical rainforests in the Amazon Basin to small ribbons running along the rivers. |
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Marsupials live underground, on land, in trees, and in water, and inhabit rainforests, deserts, and temperate regions. |
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These islands are mountainous, with rainforests that make the climate equable and supplies of fresh water plentiful. |
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All four species are endemic to Madagascar and are found primarily in rainforests. |
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The beautiful emeralds of the South American rainforests became a warm blue. |
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Agricultural lands, rainforests and other wooded areas, grasslands, and sources of fresh water are all at risk. |
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Those countries are proposing a motion that would see the UN dole out cash to countries that protect rainforests. |
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Northern ghost bats like to stay in humid habitats such as tropical and riparian rainforests. |
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Studies of coastal temperate rainforests have found at least 80 species that depend directly on deadwood for their survival. |
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It was a tayra, a large, weasel-like mustelid, one of the real gems of New World rainforests. |
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From the rainforests they unleashed biological controls like machupo, Ebola and Dengue haemorrhagic fever. |
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While it might look impressive in rainforests, the strangler fig is one fig you shouldn't try at home. |
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The tropical rainforests of Queensland have species with mainly Palaeotropical affinities. |
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In the south, tropical rainforests have penetrated northwards from South America. |
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It has rainforests, snowpeaked mountains, volcanoes, tropical beaches and lush green pasture land. |
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In tropical rainforests, the majority of woody plant species disperse seeds via vertebrate frugivores. |
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Snakes are found in a variety of habitats ranging from tropical rainforests to hot deserts. |
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But imagine what it's like for a tree kangaroo living in the ever-shrinking rainforests of tropical north Queensland. |
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The decor includes murals of rainforests, interesting watercolour-and-ink paintings and live vines trailing from the ceiling. |
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Behind you is a gorgeous, restored great house set against a backdrop of rainforests and mountains. |
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The lowlands include savannas, swamps, tropical rainforests, and semi-deserts. |
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One-quarter of the territory endures practically in its wild state with rainforests, dry tropical forest, and savannas. |
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Traditionally, guitars are made from the world's finest cuts of mahogany and rosewood harvested from rainforests in countries like Brazil. |
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The lowland rainforests of the Indonesian island of Java are perfect places for an arboreal, leaf-green snake to ply its predatory trade. |
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We will climb as high as 4,200 feet in the mountains and have to cope with the humidity of Andean rainforests. |
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He cites 15 years of biology fieldwork in the rainforests of Central America as his educational zenith. |
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Other episodes use spectacular photography to show Australia's tropical rainforests, swamps, wildlife, deserts, seas and natural landmarks. |
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Lions can also live, with wider ranges, in most habitats except in tropical rainforests and in deserts. |
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They are primarily forest birds and live in rainforests of tropical Asia and Africa. |
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Imagine the Scottish moors with temperate rainforests and sinuous rivers, and you have Tasmania. |
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Over the past 30 years, the world has lost fully a fifth of all biodiverse tropical rainforests. |
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These birds inhabit coastal rainforests and wooded areas where they can easily fly, hop or climb from tree to tree. |
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After travelling out from the capital city, Caracas, they prepared to enter the humid tropical rainforests that cover the country. |
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In nature, orchids usually use trees as an anchor for support, often growing in areas with very high rainfall, such as rainforests. |
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Nature buffs will appreciate the lush rainforests and the Misty Fjords National Monument. |
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Its rainforests have never been cleared for timber or replaced with sugar plantations. |
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Made up of dense rainforests, and barren plateaus, it provided the extreme conditions necessary for good combat training. |
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The foundation has worked to protect tigers from extinction in Nepal, rainforests in Sumatra, and endangered sharks. |
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Ever hear the report of a lost tribe found in the rainforests of Brazil? |
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Oil palms are tropical trees and thrive in rainforests, some of the regions on Earth with the highest biodiversity. |
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The highest diversity of pigeons and doves occurs in tropical rainforests. |
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The blue morpho family of butterflies, from the rainforests of Central and South America, catch the light in their wings to conjure dazzling displays. |
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The rainforests have almost no net effect on the world's oxygen levels, since decaying plant matter in the rainforests uses about as much oxygen as the rainforests produce. |
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From the rainforests of Tasmania to the dunes of the Sahara, they swapped the pains and palaver of the 21st century for the pleasures of a purer planet. |
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They are widely distributed from rainforests to the edges of dry and cold deserts, and they play an important role in human nutrition as well as in soil fertilization. |
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All animal life depends on plants, directly or indirectly, and nowhere do plants flourish with such vigour and variety as they do in the warm, wet tropical rainforests. |
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We're facing critical mass extinctions across a whole variety of ecosystems once the two degree level has been crossed, from coral reefs to rainforests. |
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Subtropical deserts and tropical savannahs and rainforests have similarly expanded and contracted, imposing their morphogenetic overprint on older landscapes. |
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Though primarily found in rainforests, some guineafowl live in open-country habitats other than the desert, such as grasslands and plains with thickets and brush. |
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The Loru Rainforest Protected Area is situated in the lowland rainforests of Santo. |
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The Philippine eagle is part of the Accipitridae family and is endemic to the rainforests of Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. |
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The Philippines' rainforests and its extensive coastlines make it home to a diverse range of birds, plants, animals, and sea creatures. |
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The Borneo rainforest is estimated to be around 140 million years old, making it one of the oldest rainforests in the world. |
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Antipodal to an area of Amazon rainforest, Borneo is itself home to one of the oldest rainforests in the world. |
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The diversity of climate zones in Colombia is characterized for having tropical rainforests, savannas, steppes, deserts and mountain climate. |
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Guyana has one of the largest unspoiled rainforests in South America, some parts of which are almost inaccessible by humans. |
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Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savannah to rainforests. |
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Tropical rainforests fragmented and then were eventually devastated by climate change. |
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Two canopy-forming trees, Tuckeroo, and Coast Banksia, are typical of these latter rainforests. |
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Tropical rainforests technically do not have dry or wet seasons, since their rainfall is equally distributed through the year. |
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Tropical rainforests stretch across much of southern Asia and coniferous and deciduous forests lie farther north. |
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A significant loss occurred when rainforests collapsed in the carboniferous. |
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Vast tropical rainforests collapsed suddenly as the climate changed from hot and humid to cool and arid. |
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Madagascar dry deciduous forests and lowland rainforests possess a high ratio of endemism. |
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Terrestrial flora reached its climax in the Carboniferous, when towering lycopsid rainforests dominated the tropical belt of Euramerica. |
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The three presenters travelled 1,000 miles through the rainforests of Bolivia to the Pacific coast of Chile. |
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At this time vast rainforests covered the equatorial region of Europe and America. |
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They chose a wide variety of environments, including rainforests, tundra, grasslands, and deserts. |
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Tropical rainforests are the single greatest earthly source of the air that we breathe. |
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If they move deeper into the rainforest soon there will be no more rainforests. |
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Help stop rapid climate change and save endangered species living under these rainforests. |
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Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different. |
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On their way, those wild, undisturbed rivers are lined with dense rainforests, sand dunes or mangroves. |
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The report said that global warming may be affecting the tropical rainforests, a natural habitat of the musky rat-kangaroo and other species. |
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Other research groups made similar observations in the air above North American forests and tropical rainforests. |
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Tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia have been affected by climatic fluctuations during past glacial eras. |
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However, Crowther at the time was not living in Goa, nor was he a broken man, instead he was living in the rainforests of East Coast Australia. |
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The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests. |
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This created more coastlines and shifted the continental climate from dry to humid, and many of the arid deserts of the Triassic were replaced by lush rainforests. |
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John and Dorothy Devereux have a passion for rainforests and butterflies. |
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In 2011, Charles received the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Medal for his engagement with the environment, such as the conservation of rainforests. |
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By most accounts, deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world's roads. |
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The World Land Trust generates carbon offsets by restoring tropical rainforests and protecting imminently threatened forests from further destruction. |
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The region is home to a variety of geographical features, such as glaciers, rainforests, valleys, deserts, and grasslands that are typical of much larger continents. |
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It is sometimes called vegetable ivory, or tagua, and is the seed endosperm of the ivory nut palm commonly found in coastal rainforests of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. |
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Cattle and rice farms release methane, fertilized fields release nitrous oxide, and the cutting down of rainforests to grow crops or raise livestock releases carbon dioxide. |
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Sting, has recorded a new version of his classic hit 'Message in a Bottle' to join Prince Charles in sending out an SOS to help save the world's rainforests. |
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The growing human population has put severe pressure on Java's wildlife, as rainforests were diminished and confined to highland slopes or isolated peninsulas. |
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Couples can take a picnic to Lover's Beach, hike through rainforests to spot green vervet monkeys, bike around the 36-square-mile island, scuba dive and more. |
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While tropical rainforests have more biodiversity and turnover, the immense conifer forests of the world represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink. |
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To start with,' he says, 'we need better management of tropical rainforests and large-scale protection, regeneration and reafforestation programs. |
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Climate change devastated these tropical rainforests, abruptly fragmenting the habitat into isolated 'islands' and causing the extinction of many plant and animal species. |
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The rainforests of the Iron Range National Park support species that are also found in New Guinea, including the eclectus parrot and southern common cuscus. |
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