Australia’s Kimberley region houses some of the country’s most botanically diverse ecosystems: monsoon rainforest patches. Although they’ve been harvested and cared for by First Nations groups for ...

Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the ...

As the monsoon nears an end in Phoenix, the air had begun to dry out, but moisture could return with the help of a tropical storm. With Mario pumping moisture northward, the chances of rain in Phoenix ...

Tropical dry forests are critically endangered ecosystems that once covered vast areas of the planet but have been largely destroyed, with less than 8% of the original extent remaining in some regions ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent research shows that clearing large areas of the rainforest exposes hundreds of ...