A new study, using NASA laser technology from the International Space Station, reveals the impact of climate change on global tropical forests with greater depth and breadth than ever before.

CANBERRA, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Tropical forests in the Americas are struggling to keep pace with climate change, sparking concerns about their long-term survival, the University of Adelaide said in a ...

The Cloud Forest, with its towering waterfall and cool, misty climate that’s typically found in Tropical Montane regions in the world, provides the perfect setting for this prehistoric experience.

In the misty peaks of the Dominican Republic, where cool air clings to the trees and biodiversity flourishes, lies one of the most threatened ecosystems in the Caribbean: the Tropical Montane Cloud ...

However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest loss than the original roads themselves. In all three regions, secondary roads ...

and non-timber forest products such as parasitic food and epiphytes. It is categorized into economic forests, under-forest economic products, and indirect food that can be used as livestock feed ...

Tropical forests are supposed to be safe havens for wildlife, but new research shows they're not as protected as we'd hope — including in areas we designate for conservation. A recent study published ...

Sustainable forest management is an important strategy for the conservation of tropical secondary forests. However, knowledge about their potential for timber production is scarce, especially in the ...

Tropical montane ecosystems are ... composition with environmental variables in the cloud forests. Finally, we acknowledge that the results reported here come from only one gradient study. Tropical ...

Here, we used a whole-ecosystem ecological experiment in the Central Amazon to investigate which functional traits of aerial-hawking insectivorous bats best predict their sensitivity to forest ...