New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can provide a fresh ...

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

In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

Getting hit by lightning is not usually a good thing. But one tropical tree species seems to harness heaven’s wrath. Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ramp ...

Satellite technologies developed at the University of Sheffield could help shift the balance in global climate crises as they ...

Corcovado Wilderness Lodge, the only lodge situated within a national park accessible solely by boat, earns its prime real ...