In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

Imagine a forest so vast and wild that its boundaries stretch farther than the eye can see, where ancient trees tower like ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest ... of the most closely studied tropical forests in the world. Dr. Gora set out to study whether individual trees in the forest benefit from ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, raising concerns about their long-term resilience.

Over one-third of the compounds were terpenoids, chemicals that plants use to ward off threats like insects and pathogens.

Members of the team were hiking in the Uluti Village and the Boma la Mzinga Forest Reserves ... massive girth, the tree grows a little taller than others around it in the rainforest, which is ...

A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. A total of around 100 mature trees were found growing in two village land forest reserves ...