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

Stony Brook University’s Dr. Patricia Wright was introduced to an amazing parcel of land in southeastern Madagascar.

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 ...

A tropical tree species in Panama’s lowland rainforest appears to benefit from lightning strikes by surviving unscathed while ...

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

A century of research on Barro Colorado Island has contributed to our understanding of forest ecology. Researchers from Utah ...

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.

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