The new climate could lead to widespread tree loss, affecting the Earth's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the ...

Global warming, with its long summers and increasing number of droughts, is introducing a new climate in the Amazon ...

Low-cost tech and joined-up funding have reduced illegal logging, mining and poaching in the Darién Gap – it’s a success story that could stop deforestation worldwide ...

When you sleep in the middle of Mabira forest, you are sure to hear nonstop sounds of birds, hyraxes, and nature ...

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Australian universities has found the first evidence that woody biomass in tropical rainforests is acting as a long-term source of carbon ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100. When you purchase through links on our ...

From the vast Amazon Rainforest and the wild Congo Rainforest to Australia’s ancient Daintree Rainforest, the misty Tongass ...

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

Tropical dry forests are critically endangered ecosystems that once covered vast areas of the planet but have been largely destroyed, with less than 8% of the original extent remaining in some regions ...