July 27, 2009

• Rainforests: Way More Than Just Monkeys And Parrots

  Adrian Adams asked: Rainforests are the dynamic engine of the Earth's biosphere; they fix carbon from the atmosphere, and the aspiration of plants in the rain forests produce nearly 10% of the oxygen we need to live (over 70% of the oxygen is generated by algae and plankton on the world's oceans). (…)