With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

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One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...

With silver-tinged furry leaves that grow in a rosette and occasional ... Pereira is familiar with the long tradition of scientific illustration, or the practice of using art to create ...

One Cosmo editor says: "I've been keeping this in my bag to layer with practically every scent I own since the weather ...

Through a new review paper published in Nature, the researchers underscore how long-term studies have captured evolution's ...

How we combined newly discovered fossils and DNA from global palm collections to understand more about the evolution of one of the most species-rich places on Earth The tropical Asian island of New ...

Illustration by Robert Van Pelt Six staff scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) are compiling and editing volumes to commemorate the “longest conversation in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

Comparing leaf and branch wood concentrations of C, Ca, K, Mg, N, Na, and P for trees growing in tropical forests in Amazonia and Australia we found that the concentrations of most elements varied ...