CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

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

In the fight against climate change, tree planting as a natural climate solution is a popular policy and land-use initiative ...

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even ...

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

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

is home to a research-rich outpost of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, a living, breathing, jungle-forest research center unlike any other in the planet. Courtesy of Smithsonian In a ...

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

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 ...

a tropical forest engineer who started monitoring forest plots with ULA in 2004 and now works with the Wildlife Conservation Society. And yet, most of ULA’s research has stopped since 2016 due ...

Lightning is a major cause of tree mortality, accounting for up to 40% of the deaths of large trees in lowland tropical forests where the tonka bean trees reside, previous research has shown.

The new research suggests the deathly landscapes ... dying at “an unprecedented rate.” Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy left a ghost forest of white cedar in New Jersey in 2012.