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 ...

Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest. For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If tropical deforestation were a country, according to the World Resources Institute, it would rank third in carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions, behind China and the U.S. 6:03 What can be done ...

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.