Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sunlight flickered through bowing branches. As the sun hit moss-covered cliffs, steam rose that was so thick I thought it was coming from a campfire. Yellow leaves glowed over the hillside. To my ...

It's the only one of its kind in the continental United States. I’ve been working through my bucket list this summer, and right near the top was trekking through a tropical rainforest. In my mind, ...

Operators in the world heritage Daintree Rainforest are anxious about lost business after tour boats and ferries were damaged in floods ahead of the Easter holidays.