tropical rainforest
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Environmentalists have raised alarm about drilling for oil off the coast of the world's largest tropical rainforest, a biodiverse area that is home to several Indigenous communities.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
Also known as Celtic rainforest, the habitat harbours scarce plants, lichens and fungi, and is considered more threatened than tropical rainforest.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
But seagrass does it especially fast — at a rate 35 times that of tropical rainforest.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
"It is therefore quite possible that there are many non-native species in the tropical rainforest that we simply don't know about."
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023
Especially on the northern slopes, tropical rainforest is well developed; this is replaced at about 1200 meters by cloud forest.
From A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico by Duellman, William E.
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