Tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems accounting for nearly half of the global forest carbon sink. If tropical forests can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

However, the ancient ecosystem likely hosted more deciduous plants than do modern tropical forests. The vertebrate fossils the researchers analyzed were consistent with apes, pythons, and rodents ...

SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Tropical forest loss declined last year, but other indicators show that the world's woodlands remain under tremendous pressure, according to an analysis, opens new ...

Tropical forest loss saw a decline in 2023, but there is still an ongoing pressure on woodlands globally, according to an analysis released on Thursday.

Evidence from this site indicates that it was likely a relatively closed tropical seasonal forest environment between 19 and 20 million years ago. (Image credit: John Kingston) Artistic rendering of ...

As in previous years, the largest tropical forest losses occurred in Brazil and Congo. Brazil alone contributed 43 percent of the world’s tropical forest loss — 4.4 million acres — in 2022.

The loss of the world’s tropical primary forests increased 10 per cent year-on-year in 2022, with tree cover equivalent to the size of Switzerland destroyed globally, according to new research.

To address these challenges, the researchers developed a double filter that used temporal signal decomposition (seasonal changes, trends, etc.) to offset these effects. ... Old-growth tropical forests ...