H undreds of millions of trees die from lightning strikes worldwide every year, and as the climate changes, that number is rising. In tropical rainforests, these strikes are a leading cause of ...

If you want to add a touch of Hawaii to your garden space, there's one gorgeous low-maintenance tree that you might want to ...

In trees growing in the tropics, rings can be harder to notice — so much so that ecologists once believed that tropical trees didn’t produce rings at all. Over the past few decades, this line ...

A group of trees that grow fast, live long lives and reproduce slowly account for the bulk of the biomass -- and carbon storage -- in some tropical rainforests, a team of scientists says. The ...

Tropical tree species differ in damage and mortality from lightning. Nature Plants, 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01230-x; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

A view of an over 400-year-old tree on Barro Colorodo Island, on November 23, 2015 Rodrigo Arangua / AFP via Getty Images When hunting for the world’s largest tropical trees, watch your step.

Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, potentially because of climate change, according to an international study published May 18 in ...

Climate change is already making a small proportion of tropical tree leaves so hot that their photosynthetic machinery bakes and breaks, according to new research.. The study, published on ...