International agreements, 'debt for nature' swaps and selective logging and replanting of trees can all be used to help reduce deforestation. Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent ...

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good ...

Prize went to a team whose drone-delivered tree-top labs identified 700 different types of animals and plants, including 250 ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

A video of President Joe Biden appearing to "wander off" into the Amazon rainforest has gone viral on social media. The clip ...

Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon.

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...