After Earth’s greatest extinction, it wasn’t just volcanic fury that kept the planet hot; it was the death of tropical ...

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Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million ...

Lab studies show that when the leaves of rainforest trees reach a temperature of around 47°C (117°F), the cellular machinery that captures energy from sunlight is irreversibly damaged and the ...

If tropical air temperatures reach 116 degrees Fahrenheit, a lot of the rainforest could die. This is the first study to narrow in on a threshold that we need to avoid.

Tropical Storm Sara started moving slightly faster Saturday after it stalled over Honduras, drenching the northern coast of the Central American nation, swelling rivers and trapping some people at ...

Shifting rainfall patterns, especially those exacerbated by climate change, could drive large parts of the Amazon rainforest to become drier savanna, a new study has found. Rainfall acts like a ...

The origins of modern tropical rainforests, such as this stretch of forest near Medellín, Colombia, trace back to the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago.