I’ve been working through my bucket list this summer, and right near the top was trekking through a tropical rainforest. In my mind, that always meant at least a plane ride's worth of travel—me in ...

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 ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.

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 ...

Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...

Welcome to my office,” says Juan Thomas, as his plane soars over Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. The pilot for African Parks, a conservation NGO, puts on an incongruous playlist ...

The richest part of a tropical rainforest is often the hardest to study: the canopy, where much of its biodiversity lives beyond reach from the ground. Francis Hallé helped change that by finding ways ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s large tropical rainforest, covering roughly 2.7 million square miles. It comprises more than half of the world’s remaining rainforests. It is crisscrossed by ...

Scientists have identified an unusual new termite species in the canopy of French Guiana’s tropical rainforest, describing an ...

A conservation group's plans to replant species from the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest on land used for growing sugar have not won everybody over.

After a multi-million-dollar transformation, Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Rainforest Beach and Golf Resort steps into its role as Puerto Rico’s next cultural and entertainment destination, in one of the ...