Tropical rainforest now covers about six percent of Earth's land surface. Two countries accounted for 46 percent of the primary ... National Geographic Explorer Topher White, for example, ...

Can a new way to measure tropical rainforest vulnerability help save them? A team of top scientists, brought together by the National Geographic Society, built an index to detect which forests ...

World’s second biggest rainforest will soon reopen to large-scale logging. The lifting of the 20-year logging moratorium in part of the Congo is fueling disputes over how the forest can be kept ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, it transformed the island’s forests into tangled messes of split tree trunks, downed branches, and fallen leaves. El Yunque rainforest ...

A female orangutan forages for ripe figs in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan Province. The park’s 417 square miles support about 2,500 of the ...

The canopy crane experience. A traditional rainforest walkway or tower provides an up-close yet stationary view of the treetops. But the new canopy crane at Sacha Lodge, a private ecological ...

The tallest tropical tree in the world is right where we thought it was—in a protected forest reserve in the state of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. But it’s not the one we thought. Greg Asner of ...

Deep in the Costa Rican rainforests, where howler monkeys and pumas roam, conservationists are working alongside travellers on new citizen science projects, introducing hi-tech processes to ...

The Parque Natural Metropolitano, a tropical rainforest within city limits, is one of the most exhilarating experiences Panama City has to offer.This 573-acre park is home to more than 200 bird ...

Puerto Rico’s stunning new trail traverses a tropical rainforest. The pioneering 40-mile path through El Yunque National Forest will take you from beaches to mountain peaks.

The objects were found in a cave in Sri Lanka and include the oldest known bow-and-arrow technology outside Africa, dating back to 48,000 years ago.