If you’re walking through a rainforest, you might want to keep your head up. How else would you know to duck to avoid a ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Beneath the dense canopy of the Amazon, a clearing reveals the stark reality of prolonged drought. Fallen logs decay, trees ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

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This will reveal the genetics of rainforest plants that are able to thrive in warmer, drier environments that more closely resemble future climate conditions. Using the genome, the researchers can ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in ...

An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests where some of the world's rarest mosses, lichens and ...

The evidence indicated the site wasn't just small forested area but a heavily wooded one home to key rainforest trees like oil palms and hunteria. Scerri said the team is still working to examine ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. All tropical rainforests have similar characteristics including climate ...