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

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss.

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.

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

Tropical rainforests are hot ... the canopy, the under canopy and the forest floor. There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion, flooding ...

Anthropogenic pressures, invasive species and climate change could have disastrous consequences for ecosystems globally.