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Tropical forests may look like a uniform sea of green from above, but new research shows that carefully measured differences ...

At the latest TEDxAmazonia event in Ecuador, scientists highlighted the importance of the biome for all of South America.

They account for 15% of all known species worldwide – about 15 percent of all known species in the world. Approximately two-thirds of them are found exclusively in the region.