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Peak experience: the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia harbors rainforest reserves and a drive-in volcano
Beginning in my high school days, whenever I happily browsed through books on geography and travel, I was fascinated by pictures of the Pitons, two pyramidal volcanic peaks that rise along the coas...(Continue Reading) Into The Rainforest - Madagascar
It's chilly and wet. The streams are fast-moving, the forests are thick, the trails are muddy-- so what are these people doing here? One night Achille, ......(Continue Reading)TREETOP TREASURE HUNT - New sport? No, it's sky-high science! - research on rainforest scents in Gabon
How do you make sense--or scents--out of a rainforest rooftop? Just get up there and take a big whiff! That's one thing this colorful treetop raft is ......(Continue Reading)THE TREE, THE BEE, AND THE AGOUTI: Have you ever munched a fat, crunchy Brazil nut? Brazil nuts come from sky-high trees in the Amazon rainforest. But
This story begins at the top of a tall Brazil nut tree. There, pale yellow flowers burst open, advertising the nectar inside. A tiny bee--not just any ......(Continue Reading)Rainforest frogs: vanishing act? Frog populations around the world are dying off mysteriously. Can scientists save them—before it's too late? - Amphibians/Ecology
RAINFORESTS SEEM to have everything any frog could crave--lots of water, an endless variety of bugs to prey oil, and thousands of hiding places. No wonder more than 2,100 frog species call rainfore...(Continue Reading)
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