By Rhett Ayers Butler In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet ...

If you want to bring the lush beauty of the tropics into your home, these 16 tropical rainforest plants you can easily grow indoors thrive with minimal care, brighten your living spaces, and create a ...

Far away from cold city sidewalks and gray skies lies a land of misty forest mornings surrounded by lush tropical greenery ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through enormous swaths of the Amazon, releasing masses of planet-warming 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Orange, Calif. — Sept. 16, 2025 — A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature Communications, suggests the Earth’s own ...