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

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

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 ...

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, ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

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 ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

The government proposal seeks to clear forests for in order to produce bioethanol from sugarcane and food crops.