Researchers have conducted the world's biggest ever bird survey, recording 971 different species living in forests and cattle ...

Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest system. Considering it’s on a Caribbean island, it’s expansive, ...

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

View of a deforested and burned area of the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil on Sept. 2, 2022. Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images. A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather ...

On World Rainforest Day, the world confronts an unprecedented wave of tropical forest loss Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2025 On a Patagonian plateau, a microendemic frog makes a hopeful comeback ...

BRASILIA – Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate c… ...

Record-breaking forest loss in 2024: Tropical primary rainforest loss surged to 6.7 million hectares—nearly double the previous year—driven primarily by fire for the first time on record.

The flight from San Jose takes just under two hours, our twin-engine plane gliding low over jungled hills, white beaches and ...

As each degree increase above the heat threshold releases 100 billion tonnes of CO2 from tropical forests to the atmosphere, representing over 280 years of annual fossil fuel emissions by a ...

A rainforest is a tropical or subtropical forest that receives high amounts of precipitation. Typically found near the Earth's equator, where there is high rainfall and warm temperatures ...

Dense rainforests filled with tropical plants and unusual creatures are usually associated with the vast Brazilian Amazon. But rainforest habitats can be found around the globe, and rainforest ...

The Pacific Coast rainforest as a whole stores more carbon per unit area than any other forest in the world. Drawing on research and interviews with more than a hundred scientists and other ...