The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most ...

Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Will President Trump actually trifle with the health and safety of the most sophisticated and most enduring political system ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and subtropical ...

Researchers have described how tropical cyclones in the Caribbean could become more frequent after analyzing sediment from ...