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Stories about: rainforest

Hackers Responsible for Rainforest Destruction Greenpeace announced that over 200 people and 100 logging and charcoal companies faced prosecution in Brazil for their involvement in a large-scale fraud case. The companies allegedly contracted hacking groups that broke into the government's network and altered the records in order to allow for excessive defore... 13 December 2008 06:56 GMT Tree Diversity in the Amazon Puzzles Scientists The Amazon is one of the richest areas in the world, in terms of tree diversity, recent studies show. On a single patch of soil, measuring about 25 hectares, researchers managed to identify more than 1,100 species of trees, whereas the same area was populated by 600 species of birds and some 170 species of mammals. S... 24 October 2008 07:55 GMT World's Oldest Rainforest A rainforest represents an explosion of life, the peak of biological diversity on Earth. But the trees that make the current rainforest appeared for the first time during the Cretaceous, at the sunset of the dinosaur realm. So, when did the first rainforest appear? And how did it look like?Now a British-American te... 23 April 2007 05:19 GMT