A team of Australian scientists has discovered a new species of giant stick insect, Acrophylla alta, in the tropical forests ...

The newly discovered bug makes its home high in the canopy of the Atherton Tablelands, a highland rainforest in tropical ...

The study said long-term changes to the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, with more frequent and intense hot, dry El Nino events due to climate change, disrupt the natural balance between El ...

Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing and storing carbon. However ...

Indeed, the team found the largest declines in arthropods occurred in those that favor La Niña conditions. If El Niño is ...

Modeling suggests that tropical forests can withstand up to a 3.9 degree Celsius increase over current air temperatures before a potential tipping point is reached, which is within the worst-case ...

Now, in the upper canopies of Earth’s tropical forests, roughly 1 in every 10,000 leaves experiences temperatures at least once a year that may be too high for photosynthesis, researchers report ...