Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

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

Almendro’ (Dipteryx oleifera), a tropical tree native to Panama’s rainforests, has stunned scientists with its surprising ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

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

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

A team of global ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests, with the published review findings ...

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, home to ...

In this undated file photo, the rainforest is shown in Panama. STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images In a typical lightning strike in a tropical forest ... lightning shapes forest ecosystems could shed ...

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

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...