Termites—infamous for their ability to destroy wood—are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...

There are other rainforests on Earth including Central America, the Congo, and Southeast Asia. The Amazon rainforest is about as big as all the other rainforests combined.

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than previously thought.

Rainforests are the most cost-effective way to suck CO2 out of the air, which is why climate negotiators are trying to make them worth more alive than dead.

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

World Rainforest Day is a reminder of how important these habitats are for controlling the weather and keeping climate change in check.

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched a satellite that will be able to do what no other has done before. Current space-based radars are unable to penetrate the canopy of rainforests ...

Rainforests, like this one in Ecuador, only appeared after the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images Rainforests did not yet exist when ...

There were some hopeful developments for tropical rainforest conservation in 2022, including declines in the deforestation rate in Indonesia and the Brazilian Amazon, new high-level policy ...

Between rising deforestation in the Amazon, new financial and political commitments to reduce deforestation, and growing interest in “nature-based solutions” like conservation and ...

It’s crucial to know the relationship between biodiversity and carbon storage to assess whether carbon-focused conservation will also protect the most biodiverse forests.