Zipping back down from the canopy to the ground, leaf and soil samples carefully stashed in backpacks, the researchers head to the lab. They tease out the twigs and debris from the compostlike soil.

About 15,000 new insects have been identified in the last four years since the crane was set up in Daintree Rainforest National Park in Queensland. It is the world's oldest tropical rainforest. The ...

A rainforest is typically made up of four key layers: emergent, upper canopy, understory, and forest floor. In the top emergent layer, trees as tall as 200 feet (60 meters) grow far apart and tall ...

A leaf falls from the rainforest canopy, but it never hits the ground. Instead, it becomes trapped by nets of sticky fungi. While other lost leaves litter the forest floor, this one has joined the ...

Meg Lowman climbs trees for a living. A botanist by training, she wanted to study the rainforest canopy. The only way to get answers, she says, was to get up there herself. So back in the 1970s ...

The State Government will lease the Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walkway, near Innisfail, to the owners of nearby Paronella Park for an initial period of five years from the end of March.

Researchers working in the Amazon rainforest collected acoustic data from beneath the forest canopy to build up a sound picture of the forest, which they say can help indicate its health.

Zipping back down from the canopy to the ground, leaf and soil samples carefully stashed in backpacks, the researchers head to the lab. They tease out the twigs and debris from the compostlike soil.