Tropical rainforests are home to almost two-thirds of all vertebrate species and three-quarters of all tree species: they are ...

Rainforest cleared for agriculture can regenerate: trees and animals return. This is shown by a new study published in ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent ...

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Australian universities has found the first evidence that woody biomass in tropical rainforests is acting as a long-term source of carbon ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.

By Rhett Ayers Butler A tropical forest can regrow quickly. What is harder to see is how long full ecological recovery takes.

I’ve been working through my bucket list this summer, and right near the top was trekking through a tropical rainforest. In my mind, that always meant at least a plane ride's worth of travel—me in ...

Can cleared rainforests recover and can extinct species return? A research team investigating these questions as part of the ‘Reassembly’ consortium, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

The richest part of a tropical rainforest is often the hardest to study: the canopy, where much of its biodiversity lives beyond reach from the ground. Francis Hallé helped change that by finding ways ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s large tropical rainforest, covering roughly 2.7 million square miles. It comprises more than half of the world’s remaining rainforests. It is crisscrossed by ...

Welcome to my office,” says Juan Thomas, as his plane soars over Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. The pilot for African Parks, a conservation NGO, puts on an incongruous playlist ...