Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

A rainforest is defined as a forest where rainfall is abundant and even continuous. A tropical rainforest gets between 96 and 177 inches every year. The amount of rainfall in a temperate rainforest ...

The authors explain this by citing the favourable growing conditions in moist tropical climates. The study addresses the relevant question of which trees to plant, and where, in forest restoration.

including the two largest tropical islands on earth: Borneo and New Guinea. However, researchers are still struggling to explain when, where and how this breathtaking diversity has come into existence ...

Although it only extracts a few economically valuable trees per hectare, forest management also results in the reduction of tropical ecosystems. Image courtesy of Ludmilla Techuk / SFB.

The establishment of national parks is a critical measure for natural ecological protection in China, significantly contributing to biodiversity conservation and regional sustainable development.

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...

In case you ever need to be rescued from a tropical island ... were rescued Friday from a remote island in Micronesia after writing the rescue message on the beach, according to the U.S. Coast ...