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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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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights Even after a century of research, Barro Colorado in Panama continues to shed light on natural life Photograph: Christian Ziegler ...

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.