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

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser ...

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 ...

This vast protected jungle has hundreds of birds and exotic species within its borders, as well as thundering waterfalls and ...

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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 ...

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

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

those woody parasitic vines known to strangle and reduce the growth of many rainforest trees. Researchers long suspected some tree species had tolerance towards lightning, but no empirical ...

"People tend to think that by just planting a diversity of trees, these rainforests will regenerate," said Baptiste Wijas, a postdoctoral fellow at Cary Institute and visiting academic at the ...

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 ...