The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...
Tropical forests are among the planet’s most powerful natural climate tools, yet after logging or pasture use they can take decades to recover their biomass and biodiversity. New research suggests ...
Highly detailed 3D scans of dense tropical rain forest plots are enabling precise estimates of tree structure, volume and ...
Tropical forests have long been treated as slow, patient allies in the fight against climate change, quietly locking away carbon over decades. A wave of new research suggests that, under the right ...
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering with Michael Coe, a senior scientist and tropical forest ...
New 3D scans of tropical rainforests give scientists better data on forest biomass, boosting carbon tracking and satellite ...
As host of 2025’s COP30 climate summit, Brazil is working on two complementary finance mechanisms, hoping to reward tropical forest conservation worldwide. Both rely on the concept of investing money ...
Tropical dry forests are critically endangered ecosystems that once covered vast areas of the planet but have been largely destroyed, with less than 8% of the original extent remaining in some regions ...