On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest—a place where the density of trees ...

Finding a plant that can withstand that trifecta of humidity, fluctuating temperatures, and low-light levels might be ...

Some of the world's biggest polluters are reaping billions of dollars through a lax form of green finance, a new ...

Operating within the Republic of the Congo, Kamba African Rainforest Adventures has mastered the art of ecotourism in one of ...

The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

In a dark, almost impenetrable forest in southern Uganda live huge, near-mythical creatures which remind us of ourselves.

Scientists have figured out at least two ways to make plants glow in the dark, delivering a first step – albeit a somewhat dim one – toward the shimmering Pandora rainforest displayed in the ...

He’s describing the Boiling River in Peru’s Amazon Rainforest ... In each plot, they measured and identified every woody plant with a trunk diameter of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch ...

It thrives luxuriantly along rainforest edges ... causing respiratory problems because the stingers stay in the air around the plant. One encounter with the plant may cause a lot of discomfort ...

Hotter air is also “thirstier” — it can hold ... of water vapor that becomes precipitation, such as the Amazon rainforest: as drought conditions become more common, parts of the rainforest ...