Tropical rainforests are exceptionally diverse, complex ecosystems and they’re home to some of the most unique wildlife on ...

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new ...

image: Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have found that Shorea parvifolia, a tropical rainforest tree species widely distributed through Southeast Asia, has had a recent migration to Borneo ...

Trees are growing even bigger in the Amazon rainforest – despite climate change, reveals new research. Average tree size across the world’s largest tropical rainforest has increased by 3.2% every ...

Rainforests are found all over the world — in West and Central Africa, South and Central America, Indonesia, Southeast Asia and Australia — on every continent except Antarctica. They are vitally ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Biodiversity is a term biologists and ecologists use to describe natural ...

Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international ...

For most people who go for a walk in a forest, their surroundings seem unchanging. But researchers from Japan have discovered that, on a geological time scale, one rainforest tree species has been ...

Chocolate really does grow on trees, although not as little chocolates. Chocolate comes from the seeds of the tree Theobroma cacao, a tropical rainforest tree. Produced from seeds of the cacao plant, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract • Photosynthetic responses to acclimation temperature were investigated in seedlings of eight Australian rainforest tree species. Australian ...

While lightning is a fascinating phenomenon, it's also infamous in its capacity for destruction and the danger it poses to life. Each year, lightning claims hundreds of millions of trees worldwide, ...