The world’s largest tropical rainforest is being ravaged as the number of blazes recorded across the Brazilian Amazon has risen 79 percent this year, according to INPE, the country’s space ...

Sometimes it will appear that it’s raining frogs in El Yunque. This is actually coqui tree frogs fleeing their fiercest predator, the tarantula, by launching themselves into the air from heights ...

Tropical Rainforest Nutrients Linked To Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Date: June 22, 2006 Source: National Science Foundation Summary: Extra amounts of key nutrients in tropical rain forest soils ...

Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico. The Category 4 storm destroyed thousands of homes, businesses, bridges, communication towers, the entire electrical grid — and America’s only tropical rain ...

A Rain Forest Begins With Rain, Right? Is This A Trick Question? January 9, ... And then — once it starts raining all the time — tropical, rain-loving trees start to grow. They grow everywhere ...

An analysis from nonprofit the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) found 34 percent of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover is gone. Thirty percent is in various forms of degradation ...

Why deforestation means less rain in tropical forests. By Lauren Sommer (NPR) April 2, 2023 9:21 p.m. View of a deforested and burned area of the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil on Sept. 2, 2022.

Louisiana and Mississippi are bracing for heavy rains and potentially dangerous flooding as a tropical disturbance moves in.

In one worst-case scenario, New Orleans could receive up to 10 inches of rain by the end of the weekend. A tropical ...

Local News Tropical system arrives this weekend, bringing rain How much rain depends on how far north the storm moves. A satellite image provided by NOAA showed a storm system off the eastern ...