Trump intends to reopen the Tongass National Forest to logging. But environmentalists and tribal governments envision a more ...

The rainforest depends on its trees to generate much of its own rainfall through transpiration, the process by which trees release water vapor into the atmosphere. This self-sustaining cycle is ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. Leticia Yawanawa has an ambitious plan ...

This research makes us optimistic that young trees of today, which have never known 20th-century rainfall, have not shaped their structure around water abundance and thus may be better equipped to ...

Trees killed by drought and an outbreak of bark beetles in California's Tahoe National Forest in 2023. AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez This research makes us optimistic that young trees of today ...