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

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

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

Conservationists are rethinking strategies to build climate resilience in nature as rising temperatures threaten species and ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, ...

Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops ...

The Caatinga is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil and is home to the largest contiguous area of seasonally dry ...

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

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include Grand Teton and Acadia.