The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

In the 1970s Reyes’ grandmother fled the Philippines and resettled with her children in Australia when former President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. Reyes’ mother, a journalist and ...

Indigenous agroforests (food-producing agroecosystems where trees and crops grow together in forest-like environments) may ...

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

Tropical forest plant roots have not received as much research attention as aboveground vegetation. This knowledge gap ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

The Daintree Rainforest is about 120km north of Cairns along Captain Cook Highway. Allow a leisurely two to three hours with ...

In fact, prior to the politeness of the 19th century, orchids were known in Norfolk as bollockworts. Despite the origin of their name, few other plants have the glamour and allure of the orchid family ...

The tropical rain forest : an ecological study by Richards, Paul W. (Paul Westmacott) Publication date 1996 Topics Rain forest ecology Publisher Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ...

Katrina, Sandy, Andrew — some names are inextricably linked with some of the most devastating hurricanes in recent U.S. history. But how do hurricanes and other tropical storms get their names?