The island features lush mountainous rainforests, home of many rare plant, animal, and bird species.

Some Shanghainese hold large banquets when they get married.

Save the rainforest!

Toucans are tropical birds.

So let France and Germany enjoy their celebration in Versailles.

Her lush hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

Rainforests should be preserved.

The tropical countries have several severe disadvantages.

In the Philippines, the practice is to name tropical depressions from their own naming convention when the depressions are within the country's area of responsibility.

Tropical forests were cut down to expand the plantations.

Helping soybean farmers, palm oil planters, and cattle ranchers from Brazil to Southeast Asia to use land more productively, thereby reducing pressure on tropical forests, must be an integral part of the solution.

Tropical diseases remain killers to this day.

Following in the footsteps of Tajikistan, the Mayor's Office in the Uzbek capital Tashkent has banned 'lavish' weddings in the city.

The result is massive loss of habitat and destruction of species, yielding a tiny economic benefit at a huge social cost.

Malaria poses a unique challenge, owing in large part to Africa s mosquito species, which are especially adept at transmitting the disease.

Other tropical parasitic diseases imply similarly extraordinary burdens in Africa.

Tropical diseases will spread, killing still more people.

In order to collect material, Selenka organized expeditions to tropical countries.

Tropical cyclogenesis describes the process of development of tropical cyclones.

So, my kind of hero for this in the natural world are these tropical frogs.

The world's tropical rainforests are critical links in the ecological chain of life on the planet.

The rainforests are disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of hectares a day.

Tropical rainforests are located near the equator, where it's almost always warm and wet.

Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone.

Foreign investors will be able to invest in an African labor force no longer shattered by disease.

Population pressures will ease, as will the strain on fragile tropical ecosystems.

The oceans, rainforests, and air can be kept safe through pooled investments in environmental protection.

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

Peatlands hold up to 28 times as much carbon as rainforests growing on mineral soil.

Likewise, in many parts of the world, tropical rainforest is being cleared for pasture land and food crops.

There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world s tropical forests.

These diseases often lack effective preventative or curative vaccines or medicines, or the treatments that are available are too costly for the impoverished populations.

Not only are 12 of bird species already in danger of extinction, but more than twice that proportion have small geographical ranges (the key predictor of threat) and mostly live in habitats that are seriously threatened.

Tropical forests, for example, hold the majority of bird species and likely most other kinds of species too.

Its humid tropical forest stretches more than 23,000 hectares across volcanic mountain.

Over the past two centuries, tropical cyclones have been responsible for the deaths of about 1.9 million people worldwide.

it is poor countries mainly in the tropics rather than the rich countries mainly in the temperate economies who are likely to suffer the most severe damage.

Their rainforests are a vast storehouse of biodiversity, and forests are major carbon sinks, reducing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

He could meet his bride seated majestically on the caparison of an elaborately decorated elephant, and she would look ravishing swathed and bejeweled in Indian finery.

For example, with the right investments, tropical countries could significantly reduce emissions from the forestry sector while also creating green jobs.

Other tropical diseases also can be controlled, and practical technologies for safe drinking water can dramatically reduce diarrheal diseases.

By maintaining their rainforests, tropical countries provide an invaluable global service, one for which they have so far failed to be compensated.

Someone once asked me, Who is better or worse, is it Unilever or is it P G when it comes to their impact on rainforests in Indonesia?

In the North Indian basin, storms are most common from April to December, with peaks in May and November.

Local Christmas landscapes typically involve vibrant decorations, sometimes made out of local materials such as fig leaves, hardy tropical plants or calabash fruit.