In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the ...

By Petro Kotzé The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...

Tropical forests are disappearing at an alarming clip across the globe. As lush land is cleared for agriculture, climate-warming carbon gets released and biodiversity declines. But when farmland ...

By 2100 only 18-45 percent of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to new research. This is one of the first ...

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in ...

The first review of the global impact of humans on tropical forests in the ancient past shows that humans have been altering these environments for at least 45,000 years.

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study. Aimee Gabay. 19 Nov 2021 Central America. ... It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary) ...

New research reveals that thunderstorms - not just drought or heat - are a major cause of rising tree deaths in tropical ...

Tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems accounting for nearly half of the global forest carbon sink. If tropical forests can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...

Tropical forests degraded by logging may be far richer in animal and plant life than we thought. Only around 30 per cent of the world’s tropical forests remain pristine. Most have been used for ...

Tropical forests likely host the highest number of undiscovered species. The olinguito looks like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear and is native to the cloud forests of Colombia and ...