Rather having herds of explorers clamber around in the upper reaches of these forests to take measurements, researchers decided to use LiDAR to create a 3D map of these forests (press release).

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

Libreville, Gabon – In a thick tropical rainforest in a tiny country in Central Africa, a guide pauses next to a huge tree. The Niove tree, he explains while cutting it with a machete ...

Chido was a tropical cyclone over Mozambique Sunday morning Eastern Africa Time, the Joint Typhoon ... Sources and notes Tracking map Tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center and ...

Tropical Cyclone Freddy is heading toward eastern Africa. As Freddy approaches Madagascar, the FOX Forecast Center expects the cyclone to significantly weaken from its current state. Several other ...

The second system, AL95, was last seen by satellite images several hundred miles southwest of Cabo Verde in Africa ... to develop into a tropical storm by the weekend. This map from the National ...

Tropical Storm Ernesto formed Monday as it moved toward the Caribbean islands and the forecast suggest Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands could experience tropical storm conditions beginning ...