For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

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, ...

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

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, ...

Despite decades of climate change, the study found that tree communities have shifted less than 8 percent of what is needed to keep pace with changing environmental conditions, he said, adding this ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...