A rainforest bathroom? New Channel 5 show sees DIY SOS builder Mark Millar help couple

Would you want a rainforest bathroom? New TV show Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms sees DIY SOS builder Mark Millar help families with their home makeovers Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms is a new Channel 5 show hosted by Mark Millar Mark Millar is best known for his role as one of the builders on TV’s DIY … Read more

The Amazon rainforest now spews out more greenhouse gases than it can store

The Amazon rainforest is now contributing more to global warming than it is doing to prevent it, a study has found.   Analysis shows the net impact on the environment of the tropical rainforest, the most diverse place in the world, has become negative as a result of human actions.  Deforestation and illegal fires have led to … Read more

Tracts of Amazon rainforest stolen from indigenous tribes are up for sale on Facebook

Tracts of Amazon rainforest stolen from indigenous tribes are up for sale on Facebook Plots as large as 1,000 football pitches have been illegally cleared and burned They were cleared to be used for cattle and listed on Facebook’s Marketplace The protected areas include protected land reserved for indigenous people  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: … Read more

Inside Kyle Sandilands’ stunning rainforest retreat in Port Douglas

Kyle Sandilands buys a stunning rainforest retreat in Port Douglas… months after he moved into a $5,000-per-week Woollahra mansion with girlfriend Tegan Kynaston By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:54 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 4 February 2021 Kyle Sandilands has added to his already impressive property portfolio. The KIIS … Read more

The Bachelorette’s Ali Oetjen moves into a modern two-bedroom house ‘on rainforest acreage’ 

The Bachelorette’s Ali Oetjen moves out of her parent’s home and into a modern two-bedroom house ‘on rainforest acreage’ By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:13 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 07:13 GMT, 4 February 2021 She moved into her parent’s home at Queensland’s Maleny after splitting with her ex-boyfriend, Taite Radley. And … Read more

Fighting for their existence: Incredible photographs of Brazilian rainforest tribes

Incredible images have captured the indigenous tribes of Brazil who act as guardians of the quickly diminishing Amazon rainforest and fight off outsiders intent on destroying it. One stunning photo showed an 89-year-old tribe chief hunting for fish with a bow and arrow in a shallow bay. Another captured a beautiful indigenous woman swimming underwater … Read more

Climate change: Amazon rainforest will die by 2064, says scientist

South America’s Amazon rainforest will be wiped out by 2064 due to deforestation and prolonged droughts from climate change, a scientist predicts in a new paper.  At about 2.3 million square miles, the Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth.  As well as reducing air pollution and regulating the world’s oxygen and carbon cycles, it … Read more

Amazon rainforest will die by 2064, scientist predicts

South America’s Amazon rainforest will be wiped out by 2064 due to deforestation and prolonged droughts from climate change, a scientist predicts in a new paper.  At about 2.3 million square miles, the Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth.  As well as reducing air pollution and regulating the world’s oxygen and carbon cycles, … Read more

Eight-mile wall of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans is discovered in Amazon rainforest

The Sistine Chapel of the ancients’: Eight-mile wall of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans is discovered in heart of the Amazon rainforest Eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art in Colombia features animals and humans  Discovered in the Amazonian rainforest after it was created up to 12,500 years Found on cliff faces last year in … Read more

Musician Wren is fading from the Amazon rainforest, study says 

The sound of the Musician Wren – a South American bird known for its tuneful whistle – is fading from the Amazon rainforest, a new study says.  The species (cyphorhinus arada) is native to the Amazon, which is the world’s largest rainforest at about 2.1 million square miles.  But it’s is now ‘seldom seen’ and has … Read more