The unusual strategy employed by this plant has caused people to hail it as a peacemaking hero of the Fijian rainforests.

Scientists found the surprising characteristic had evolved through the years, predisposing the species to a great advantage.

The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...

While Panama still faces tremendous conservation challenges, it's well on its way to meeting these challenges head-on, and ...

The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...

In a rainforest teeming with competition, one tree has discovered how to turn catastrophe into advantage. In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera—known ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

Over 1.3 million acres of some of the tallest and most valuable trees in the Amazon rainforest have been recognized as a protected area by the Brazilian state of Pará.

Satake and colleagues' important study elucidates somatic mutation processes in plants, demonstrating that in two tropical trees, mutation rates correlate with age, not growth rates. Their convincing ...

Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. It would generate returns, too.

Losing these plants could spell the beginning of the end for cloud forests, shifting the region to a drier habitat. In this short film, researchers explain why they’re climbing high up into the ...