New research led by Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology scientists challenges conventional ideas about the habitability of ancient tropical forests and suggests that West Africa may have been an ...

Humans were living in a tropical rainforest in West Africa 150,000 years ago. The finding pushes human habitation of tropical forests much further back in time, suggesting our ancestors were able ...

ecologists and space research specialists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil has found that despite efforts by the government to preserve the country's coastal tropical forests ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico — Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for a tourist from Wisconsin they say got lost in the dense tropical rain forest of El Yunque in the U.S. territory's east.

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The Pioneer Fire, Boise National Forest, Idaho, 2016. Credit: Forest Service photo by Kari Greer Modern wildfires are less frequent but more severe due to fire suppression and fuel buildup. Scientists ...

Engelmann spruce trees killed by the spruce beetle in Colorado’s Rio Grande National Forest. Insects and disease were the main culprits causing Colorado’s forests to become a carbon source in recent ...

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Tropical forests are among the most vibrant ecosystems on Earth. These dense and humid landscapes hold more than 60% of all known species, making them irreplaceable biodiversity storehouses. Despite ...

disentangling the relative influences of topography and multidimensional diversity on ΔAGB through datasets from forest inventories conducted between 2007 and 2017, along with phylogenetic relatedness ...