Rainforests are dense forests in tropical regions inhabited by a variety of unusual species you won't find anywhere else on ...

Tropical rainforest species are at especially high risk, as are top carnivores, species with small geographic ranges, and marine reef species. Humanity's main impact on the extinction rate is ...

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

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, raising concerns about their long-term resilience.

A tropical rainforest is different from a temperate rainforest because it is hot and wet due to lots of rain. The plants and animals that live in a tropical rainforest are adapted to live in ...

Spider monkeys are large New World monkeys that live in tropical rainforests from central Mexico in the north to Bolivia in the south. There are seven species of these agile primates, which get ...

Aa Aa Aa The ecosystems of the world contain a remarkable diversity of species. An area of tropical rainforest the size of fifteen city blocks may contain over a thousand different tree species ...

A new tree species, Tessmannia princeps, has been identified in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. Characterized by its massive size and slow growth, some trees are estimated to be up to 3,000 years old.