Massive fronds shut out the sun and straight trunks of the palms rising amid the dense ferns of the understory obliterated ... since Dongkin’s land was a rainforest. It was planted with rice ...

Dark butterflies camouflaged from predation in dark tropical forest understories ... A new species of Discothyrea Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. Bol. Mus. Para ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about ...

The task at hand was nothing short of grueling.  In the depths of the Amazon Rainforest earlier this year, it was a mad ...

Now that Tropical Storm Rafael has faded to what AccuWeather calls " a shredded zone of downpours and thunderstorms," can we look forward to a week of a no-drama Atlantic and the Caribbean?

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

Weeks before the Atlantic hurricane season ends, Tropical Storm Sara neared landfall along the Belize Coast. This weekend, the storm has brought torrential rain to Honduras. The latest storm in the ...

Tropical Storm Sara's remnants have all but dissipated after the system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico early Monday morning, but moisture from the storm is expected to cause heavy rain between ...

New research from an international team of scientists, recently published in the journal Nature, finds that 830,000 square miles of deforested land in humid tropical regions — an area larger ...

Tropical Storm Sara isn’t a thing anymore on paper, but parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States, stretching from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, are feeling its effects anyway.