What is "rainforest"

Usage examples of "rainforest".

He consulted it, then looked at the junglelike rainforest beyond the beach, and finally up at the stars.

Summer Young had been perfume and lipstick and cigarettes, but Suzie was sharper, clean, faintly hospital-antiseptic, overlaid with the rainforest scent of her bath oil.

My brother had enjoyed the rainforests of Huthu very much, but though he could brachiate he could barely read, and we were all bright blue with skin-fungus.

At one point I asked him what advice he had for someone about to down 100 ml of potent ayahuasca alone in a rainforest.

This manuscript lists every plant and animal in the tropical rainforest with medically active properties, along with prescriptions on how to extract the active ingredients, dosages, side effects.

The few aye-ayes that were known to exist in 1985 were to be found (or more usually not found) on a tiny, idyllic, rainforest island called Nosy Mangabe, just off the north-east coast of Madagascar to which they had been removed twenty years earlier.

The breath I took then had a thousand flavors: Nepalese snow, Brazilian rainforest, Antarctic ice, Sahara sand, stone used to build an Indian temple a thousand years ago, needles from a bristlecone pine -- each odor tagged so that I knew it without having ever tasted it before.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the trip was visiting a Bush Negro village far up in the jungle in Suriname, formerly Dutch Guianadescendants of escaped slaves who continue to live Congo-style deep in the rainforest, up a side river by launch.

So planting some cabbage tree palms, huge fig trees or other rainforest fruits can be a great help to these birds, so long as you have the room.

Modern bird species vary greatly in their ecology and lifestyle, from aerial fliers to terrestrial runners and marine divers, from tiny hummingbirds to giant extinct elephant birds, and from penguins nesting in the Antarctic winter to toucans breeding in tropical rainforests.

Right now, most scientists have become convinced, the Earth's supply of 'greenhouse gases' is growing faster than it would otherwise do thanks to human activities such as farming (burning rainforests to clear land), driving cars, burning coal and oil for electricity, and farming again (cows produce a lot of methane: grass goes in one end and methane emerges at the other).

In Brazil, the rainforests of the Amazon are being destroyed at an alarming rate by bulldozing and burning.

Right now, most scientists have become convinced, the Earth's supply of 'greenhouse gases' is growing faster than it would otherwise do thanks to human activi­ties such as farming (burning rainforests to clear land), driving cars, burning coal and oil for electricity, and farming again (cows pro­duce a lot of methane: grass goes in one end and methane emerges at the other).

Although right now we don't worry enough about incoming disaster from Up There, we do worry a lot about home-grown disaster Down Here: nuclear warfare, biological warfare, global warming, pollution, overpopulation, destruction of habitat, burning of the rainforests, and so on.

It might have a real basis in fact, too, but the real reason is that we feel that a world with tigers and orangutans and rainforests and even small unobtru­sive snails in it is a more healthy and interesting world for humans (and, of course, the tigers and orangutans and snails) and that a world without them would be dangerous territory.