The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

In Panama, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute – the only bureau of the Smithsonian outside the United States – ...

Some remarkable trees in tropical forests seem to have developed strategies not only to survive lightning strikes but also to ...

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño ...

Tropical deforestation hit a new high in 2024, fueled by Amazon wildfires and expanding agriculture. Scientists warn the ...

Lianas are dominating tropical forests. When lianas gain the upper hand, there are serious consequences that affect forest ...

If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical rainforest could see widespread ... can be measured in many different ways, and previous research often focused on small areas. That, Saatchi says ...

Researchers found that between 2002 and 2015, a 3.2% reduction in Brazilian forest cover led to a 5.4% reduction in ...

Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed ...

The research helped clarify the ecological and evolutionary forces that make tropical forests such hotbeds of biodiversity. While the team wasn't specifically looking for compounds that could be ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change but could experience other "profound ...