Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

The canoes slip away from the dock, the morning mist still clinging to Anangucocha Lake in eastern Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park. The water is the ink black of old tea, the paddles vanishing beneath ...

Perched high above the forest floor, the tropical canopy is a reservoir of biodiversity that has long resisted scrutiny. Its inaccessibility has left many of its inhabitants — orchids, epiphytes, ants ...

A. The rain forest project -- A-1. Radioecology at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center / H.J. Gomberg -- A-2. The rain forest and man : an introduction / Howard T. Odum -- B. The rain forest at El Verde -- ...