Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. They have high temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year. Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...

It’s vital we find cost-effective ways to get and keep more trees in the ground. Our research looked at where natural regeneration is likely to be successful due to environmental conditions.

At the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, which concluded yesterday in Sydney, environment minister Greg Hunt announced A$6 million to combat illegal logging. While the funding builds on legislation ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change. It's a place where few living ...

Mountains. Rainforests. The ocean. These critical Earth systems provide some of the most basic needs for life on Earth: water, oxygen, a stable climate. But these systems are increasingly at risk ...

Besides shady carbon credit projects, another new topic on the crime front is the growing presence of criminal organizations in the rainforest. Those gangs operate at the nexus of drug trafficking ...

Protecting the world's threatened rainforests is key to slowing climate change. Trees trap large amounts of carbon dioxide and evaporate water, creating thick cloud cover that reflects sunlight ...