The Papuan olive python, a remarkable reptile from New Guinea's rainforests, captivates with its colour-changing ability and ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

While most knowledge on this issue comes from studies conducted in Europe, most insect species inhabit in tropical rainforests, where understanding remains surprisingly limited. In tropical ...

The book, "Tropical Tree Physiology: Adaptations and Responses in a Changing Environment," was published by Springer. Louis Santiago, an associate professor of physiological ecology at UC Riverside, ...

In tropical rainforests, these strikes are a leading cause of tree mortality, making the discovery of a lightning-resistant tree particularly fascinating. For over a decade, researchers in Panama have ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects ...

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

Up to 100mm is expected to fall in parts of south-east Queensland on Wednesday. The rain has already brought flooding out west but is expected to be less severe closer to the coast. Parts of south ...

Hidden in the rainforest, not far from Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island is this tiny tropical treehouse that’s the perfect getaway destination. It’s private, partially off-grid, and cozy.

In 2019, botanist Andrea Bianchi and two local plant experts, Aloyce and Ruben Mwakisoma, were surveying the tropical rainforests in the Udzungwa mountains in south-central Tanzania when they suddenly ...

The Congo Basin forms part of a global trio of tropical rainforests - along with the Amazon and Borneo-Mekong regions - which together account for 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests ...