Heavy storms in northern Vietnam left one person dead and another missing, police said Wednesday, as Wipha weakened from a ...

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Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...

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.

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

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

Palm trees are a staple of New Orleans' tropical landscapes. Here, festival-goers lounge in the palm trees in Jackson Square during the first day of French Quarter Fest in April, 2023.

Scientists name the most common tropical tree species for the first time. Jan 10, 2024. Soil fungi may help explain the global gradient in forest diversity. Jan 7, 2024.

But for at least one tropical tree species, this doesn’t hurt—and might even be a good thing. Scientists have long believed that being hit by lightning could have only negative effects on trees.

Tropical trees distance themselves from members of their own species more than they do other species, a new study shows. What’s more, trees of the same species exist at distances farther apart ...