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 ...

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 ...

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

Katie Orlinsky is a Brooklyn, New York–based photographer and National Geographic Explorer since 2022. This story appears in the March 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Related Topics ...

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.

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 world’s hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson ...

That’s why National Geographic Society, with the support of Rolex, created a unique tropical rainforest vulnerability index (TFVI), with leading scientists and conservationists to detect and ...

In the sixth century, the most obvious sight would be the scattered, dark orange structures of clay bricks, a contrast to the carpet of dark green tropical rainforest, alongside the Batanghari ...

The world's tallest known tropical tree has been found—and climbed. A giant tree more than 330 feet tall was identified in Borneo from the air, and then climbed with a tape measure, at ...

The United States has about 193 million acres of land preserved within 155 different national forests, but El Yunque National ...

The Amazon rainforest is as pristine a place as most people can imagine, but even there, the effects of a changing climate are playing out. Now, research suggests that many of the region’s most ...