Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

The sovereign-backed investment fund for forests could generate far more money for conservation than traditional donor models ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... Making up half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests, the forest is also one of the most biologically diverse ...

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, home to ...

A tropical tree species in Panama’s lowland rainforest appears to benefit from lightning strikes by surviving unscathed while ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242 ...

Escape into the jungle when you book a stay at this tropical treehouse Airbnb near Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii.