Rather having herds of explorers clamber around in the upper reaches of these forests to take measurements, researchers decided to use LiDAR to create a 3D map of these forests (press release).

The United States has about 193 million acres of land preserved within 155 different national forests, but El Yunque National ...

The Limelight Rainforest team had 24 hours to collect data from 100 hectares of dense, tropical ecosystem and another 48 hours to analyze it. Grele’s task was critical: to ensure the team’s diverse ...

Map of Life is a global database that tracks the distribution ... In July, the competition’s six finalist teams were asked to survey 100 hectares of tropical rainforest near Manaus, Brazil, in 24 ...

If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical rainforest could see widespread tree deaths, or could transition to a new state, becoming drier, savanna-like woodlands. That would devastate some of ...