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.

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

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

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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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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...