How can isolated and vulnerable rural communities prepare for catastrophic natural events and become more resilient in the face of climate change? This episode of Aid Zone takes us to Bolivia, where ...

Supporting traditional medicine is part of a wider project funded by the EU to help Bolivian ethnic groups be more resilient. It’s estimated there are 36 of these groups, accounting for nearly ...

Scientists hurry to conduct health related research in dwindling rainforests and create jobs in the process ...

Products Combine Phytocannabinoids With Botanical Ingredients Found In The Amazonian Rainforest GLENDALE, COLORADO, UNITED STATES, May 17, 2018 / EINPresswire.com / -- Alexa's Botanicals, creator ...

Mark Plotkin has been exploring the tropics, particularly the northeast Amazon basin, for years in search of indigenous medicinal plants. His 1993 book "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An ...

Around the world, thousands of key compounds derived from plants and animals are used daily to make medicines. Eighty percent of developing countries rely on traditional medicine for their basic ...

Rainforest Adventure, the new exhibit headed to the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences this spring, will take visitors through an interactive maze that features the sights and sounds of a tropical ...

Rainforest Adventure opened at the downtown Raleigh museum in late April. The educational maze features questions about the rainforest along with a number of interactive play pieces.

The Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History currently has two blooming ghost orchids, which have brought interested and recurring visitors since they first flowered on July 6.