Record-breaking forest loss in 2024: Tropical primary rainforest loss surged to 6.7 million hectares—nearly double the previous year—driven primarily by fire for the first time on record ...

Tropical Storm Dalila has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean just south of the southwestern coast of Mexico, forecasters said Friday. The cyclone is centered about 190 miles (305.78 kilometers ...

Tropical activity in the Atlantic is ramping up as the National Hurricane Center starts monitoring three tropical waves.

The tropical rainforest is the most biodiverse biome on Earth, housing an astonishing variety of species due to its unique climate, characterized by abundant rainfall and sunlight. Despite its ...

Climate change is driving rapid glacier melt in several places including in New York City, leading to real-world effects.

Stone tools suggest humans lived in a tropical rainforest in present-day Ivory Coast roughly 150,000 years ago. Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG Scientists have found that early humans lived in tropical ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires ...

The year 2024 saw significant developments in tropical rainforest conservation, deforestation, and degradation. While progress in some regions provided glimmers of hope, systemic challenges and ...

I mean, the glacial striations definitely tell us that. But the scale of the sculpting, I personally wonder how much water is present at the base of a thick glacier.

Ants are famous for their regimented and complex social behaviors. In the tropics, they are also famous for forming mutualisms with plants. Certain species of trees have conspicuous hollow ...

Utah biologists discover that multiple species of Myrmelachista ants have independently evolved the same specialized relationship with understory trees of Neotropical rainforests.

Converting rainforest to plantation impacts food webs and biodiversity Date: February 21, 2024 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into ...