There’s a reason they warned you never to travel alone in the Amazon. As you go deeper into the rainforest, you start to feel like you’re being watched. Wait. Was that a roar? Soon you realize that ...

Will the Rainforest Survive? New Threats and Realities in the Tropical Extinction Crisis "Extinction Proneness Among Different Groups Of Organisms: Are We Really Losing 100 Species A Day?" by Nigel E.

It's a tale of survival, courage and hope. National Geographic's latest documentary film, "Lost in the Jungle," tells the true story of four young siblings who found themselves stranded deep within ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start leaking more carbon dioxide than they absorb, ...

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme ...

Now, a new study has analyzed 17,000-year-old climate records to connect the current's weakening with its effects on the planet's tropics. Published Wednesday (July 30) in the journal Nature, the ...

An important debate has erupted in the scientific community concerning the magnitude of future species extinctions in the tropics. This debate was ignited by an in-depth analysis of expected ...