In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the rainy season watching the tropical dry forest from inside a shack. At ...

By Liz Kimbrough A new study has for the first time identified the most common tree species in the tropical forests of Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia — and their similarities have ...

Modeling suggests that tropical forests can withstand up to a 3.9 degree Celsius increase over current air temperatures before a potential tipping point is reached, which is within the worst-case ...

It found that 66% of KBAs in tropical forests have recently transitioned to new "temperature regimes" (more than 40% of temperature measurements being outside the range previously recorded there).