The Great Bear Rainforest is a vast temperate rainforest located along the central coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Nitrogen shortage limits young tropical forest growth, slowing carbon capture that could help fight climate change.

Image: Detail of a pteridosperm, an extinct seed-producing fern-like plant. Width across image about six centimeters. A spectacular fossilised forest has transformed our understanding of the ecology ...

Before the late ‘80s, most people didn’t really think about the rainforest; the concept of such a place hadn’t yet entered into the public consciousness. When people thought about dense, tropical ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

The Choco region in northwest Ecuador is hosting a groundbreaking experiment to try and help its rainforests recover from rampant deforestation. A multinational team is planting small “tree islands" ...

June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store vast ...

WWF has recognized the Great Bear Rainforest in the western Canadian province of British Columbia as a Gift to the Earth, the global conservation organization’s highest accolade for globally ...

Imagine Earth’s lungs being cut into small pieces like a Black Friday deal. That’s what’s happening to our planet’s ecological safety nets today. Every day, we lose 80,000 acres of rainforest, an area ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...