By Ruth Kamnitzer Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to ...

Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.

A tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa earlier this week continues to move west across the Atlantic.

We call tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific "hurricanes," but they go by different names elsewhere around the world.

The world experienced unprecedented tropical rainforest destruction in 2024, primarily due to fires fueled by climate change, resulting in significant CO2 emissions and loss of biodiversity. This ...

In Panama, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute – the only bureau of the Smithsonian outside the United States – ...

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world’s tropical forests, lost 2.8 million hectares, the most of any country. It ...

IF you want to find both the world’s biggest indoor beach and the biggest indoor rainforest, you are going to want to head to Germany. Tropical Islands in Krausnick was once Europe’s ...

Loss of tree cover in 2024 -- from deforestation and fires, deliberate or accidental -- generated more than three billion ...

Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Cyclones intensify due to climate change, impacting ecosystems and societies globally, especially in SSP5-8.5 scenario.

This incredible pyramid structure predates the great Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge by an amazing 22,000 years.