The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Scientists say land managers in Queensland's Wet Tropics are winning the war against one of the world's worst invasive ant ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx oleifera trees often benefit from lightning strikes that ...

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The Dayak Iban of Sungai Utik have served as stewards of the land for generations, protecting a swath of rainforest the size of the city of Paris. They were awarded the U.N.’s Equator Prize in ...

In a new study published today in leading journal Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global partners, combine results from two newly discovered ...

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