Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand ...

Experts at the Woodland Trust say part of the Smithills estate, within the West Pennine moors, has many indicators of it ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Why has Cyclone Alfred slowed down and is it more dangerous? Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall later than initially predicted as its movements slow off the coast of south ...

The first detailed analysis of ‘secondary roads’ — those that sprout off the first road cut through an undeveloped forest — shows that they can cause forest loss hundreds of times greater ...

The Gabonese forests are representative of the Congolian tropical forests, altogether the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon. This makes the small Central African country the ...

Pellet-making is contributing to deforestation and biodiversity loss in North America, and will increasingly do so in tropical nations, including Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Experience lush mountain landscapes, roaring waterfalls, and epic hiking with a visit to the only tropical rainforest in the U.S.' national forest system.