As renewed rainfall threatens even more devastation across parts of Asia, calls to fight deforestation are getting louder.

Southeast Asia’s forests are not untouched wilderness, but social-ecological systems shaped over millennia of indigenous and ...

Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand faced large-scale devastation after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait ...

Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people across the region and displaced millions in South and ...

The forest known as the Monsoon Forest is a Tropical Deciduous Forest. Learn why trees shed leaves seasonally and why this is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A Nature study reveals surprising similarities among the most common tree species in tropical rainforests in Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia, ...

1. Swamp Vegetation Landscape. 1. Mangrove. 2. Freshwater Swamp Forest. 3. Peat Swamp Forest -- 2. Tropical Rain Forests of Brunei. 1. Brunei Forest Types. 2. Flowering and Fruiting of the Main Tree ...

A new fossil study indicates that Southeast Asia’s forests were more resilient to past climate change than previously thought. In contrast to the theory that a vast savanna corridor expanded across ...

Discover the oldest rainforests on Earth including Daintree, Khao Sok, Taman Negara, and the Congo Rainforest. Learn about ...

"The chapters in this volume began as papers given at a Japan Center for Area Studies (JCAS)/National Museum of Ethnology symposium bearing the same name (Osaka, November 28-30, 2000)"--P. xv.

Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests, ...