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rain forest

NOUN
forest with heavy rainfall
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His photos of temperate rain forest in Wales reveal shapes, structures and colours that rival a coral reef.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024

Old growth forests are certainly critically important keepers of habitats, but older forests, including rainforests like the Amazonian rain forest, are valuable primarily as carbon storage forests, not carbon sequestering forests.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023

Ms. Mac told us about the rain forest and teaching in a school in Brazil.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney