Thousands of miles away, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, another UNESCO World Heritage site, ...

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

Fourteen-year-old Alisha Wald may live in a desert state. But the recent graduate from the Mandela International Magnet School in Santa Fe has seen the creep of deforestation in the rainforest ...

Dr. John Clark, a research botanist with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, discovered four new species of airplants. They were ...

New research reveals the amount of carbon dioxide released by trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ...

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

Trees also have another way to beat the heat ... weather patterns and even create their own microclimates. The Amazon rainforest, for example, generates atmospheric conditions that not only ...

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...

Famous sequoias like the General Sherman are protected by a long history of intentionally set fires, but other giant sequoias are in big trouble. With its crown on fire from the Windy Fire, a ...