The National Aquarium’s rainforest exhibit will be closed from March 2 through the fall as workers replace all of its 684 exterior glass window panes. The expansive exhibit on the edge of Baltimore’s ...

Global warming and deforestation are combining to dry out rain forests, which could start an unstoppable cycle that turns them to grasslands. The Amazon rain forest, like other tropical forests, ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ecosystem, ...

Costa Rica is home to six types of rain forests, each offering unique biodiversity and habitats for wildlife. While the dry season from November to April is popular, visiting in September and October ...

The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon, George Weiblen, a forty-six-year-old professor at the University of Minnesota, got behind the wheel of a beige Toyota Land Cruiser in Madang, a town on the northern ...

Learn about what threatens the wet, layered forest and what you can do to help. 2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable ...