The Family Forest Carbon Program pays landowners not to timber their trees, then sells the additional growth as carbon ...

As tropical forests experience chronic drying and more extreme droughts due to climate change, some plants are adapting by ...

Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most devastating fire season in over two decades during 2024. The 2024 fires ...

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its ...

Changjiang Li Autonomous County, situated in the heart of Hainan Island, recently hosted the 2025 "Rainforest and You" series of experiential activities. The event showcased the dynamic integration of ...

Rainforests are among the most complex and diverse ecosystems in the world. From their lush green canopies to shadowy forest floors, these important environments are bursting with unique wildlife.

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, covering an area roughly the size of Australia. And yet it and other large ecosystems could be gone within our lifetime. In a new paper published ...

In a city where weekends often blur into mall visits and polished pop-ups, the Rainforest Festival offers something different ...

The Amazon rainforest could turn into a grassy savannah within 49 years of reaching an ecological tipping point, scientists have warned. A team of researchers found that once they start collapsing, ...

Note to editors: Photos and other associated press materials can be found via Dropbox here (password: amazon). Smithsonian scientists and their collaborators have found new evidence that prehistoric ...