Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree ...

Palms are among the most common tree species in the Amazon rainforest, but in some tropical areas they are unusual, or conspicuously absent. Before, variation in numbers of palm trees among ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million ...

The study found that all the monitored forests showed the same pattern of increasing local diversity as trees age even across variable forest types from tropical rainforest to drier, open forest.

Snakes inhabit every continent on Earth, except Antarctica. They live in a wide variety of habitats that range from forests, scrublands, deserts, and swamps to rainforests. Here, we’ll take a closer ...

A multitude of species from tiny insects to the powerful anaconda thrive in this rainforest’s unique environment. Let’s take a look at the most common animals in the stunning Amazon Rainforest.

Gliding Spiders Found Falling From Tropical Trees Flat-bodied spiders that live in the rainforest strike a Superman pose to take control of their free-falls ...

A University of Louisville professor is studying the effects of lighting on trees. "We've been working in the rainforest for about 30 years now," Steve Yanoviak said.

As they become more common in the warming tropics, thunderstorms are a growing threat to trees and the carbon they store. "Tropical forests have massive effects on global climate.

Tropical forests also have a greater role in storing carbon and supporting biodiversity. But global tree cover loss beyond the tropics was down 10 percent last year.

Utah biologists discover that multiple species of Myrmelachista ants have independently evolved the same specialized relationship with understory trees of Neotropical rainforests.