Brazil has secured its place as the most biodiverse country on Earth, home to nearly 13% of all known animal and plant species in a new biodiversity ranking released by World Population Review. The ...

Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising ...

June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store ...

NORMAL —Anna Hanrahan’s third-grade classroom in Heyworth becomes a tropical rainforest every spring. But don’t worry about students getting wet or being nabbed by live animals.

Tropical single-island endemic bird populations are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The authors investigate genetic evidence of how such species dealt with climate changes in the past as a ...

In the tropical rainforests of French Guiana, a new species has been hiding in plain sight. Sibon nebulatus, a species of snail-eating snake, is found all the way from Mexico to northeastern ...

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state ...

In the rainforest of French Guiana, a new species was hiding in plain sight. Tucker Johnson via Unsplash In the tropical rainforests of French Guiana, a new species has been hiding in plain sight ...

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, began to be reintroduced into a thousand-hectare forest ...

In the tropical rainforests of French Guiana, a new species has been hiding in plain sight. Sibon nebulatus, a species of snail-eating snake, is found all the way from Mexico to northeastern ...