What is "rainforests"

Usage examples of "rainforests".

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.

Carialle's aesthetic sense was pleased by the cities she could see now in greater detail, integrated fully with the rainforests that covered most of the continent.

He could see the many-petaled vineflowers which were the distinguishing feature of the rainforests at this time of year.

Gradually thedragonriders worked their way over the rainforests, so densely, so invitingly green.

He restores natural balance, healing rainforests, bringing wildlife habitats to the city and greenery everywhere.