Rainforests right now, like in the Amazonian basin, we're losing, by a conservative estimate, about an acre per second of rainforest
Preserve the rainforests , sustainability, green jobs, livable cities, renewables, clean water, air, healthy children, et cetera.
In tropical rainforests is where you have the most diversity.
that reminded her of rainforests .
That together with the plundering of the rainforests -- and we see it now in the Amazon and the problems there, how serious it is, and with cement manufacture.
no fish no reefs no rainforests and nine billion people fighting over what and human history dictates that when we
to call attention to problems of rainforests .
Complex adaptive systems-- we can think of things like rainforests .
the Amazon rainforest, the rainforests of the Congo and Central Africa, the rainforest archipelago of the East Indies.
And I love that it draws attention to wildlife and natural places like the rainforests of Ecuador.
but a lot of areas where they will contract-- mostly along these eastern rainforests .
Certainly I will not be around to see the end of the tropical rainforests .
Already not only temperate forests, but rainforests .
Look into, why are we cutting down the rainforests ?
And I loved it so much, I loved seeing jungles and savannahs and rainforests and oceans, that I used to tell my parents,
I spent a long time in Borneo with the last of the nomadic peoples of the Southeast Asian rainforests , the Penan.
There are walls that are formed in East Africa that block moisture coming in from the ocean or coming in from the rainforests on the other side.
At Tufts, where he studied medicinal plants in the rainforests of South America.
One reads that by 2050, the world's tropical rainforests will essentially all be destroyed outside of the Amazon basin and perhaps parts of the Congo
And then rather than tearing down the rainforests to get every single, every single molecule that we need, how can we mass produce it?
And so, I knew that I wanted to look at environments like rainforests and coral reefs that have a long track record of generating biological diversity, because I figured there would be
And this last one is a challenge because most people when they think about protecting the environment, they're picturing pandas, and rainforests , and coral reefs,
So if you look, for example, at the work my colleagues are doing in Central America using LIDAR to map beneath the dense rainforests of Guatemala,
It's the increasing intensity of farming that has actually save the rainforests .