The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

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 ...

Researchers developed a cost-effective way to collect DNA from species high in the rainforest canopy: they hung umbrellas to collect rainwater that washed through the trees. The method revealed 562 ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

In southern Andalusia, Spain, Los Alcornocales Natural Park hides an unusual world, shielded by the Sierra del Aljibe ...