El Niños happen when water in the tropical Pacific heats up, changing weather patterns all around the world. The hotter the ...

Extreme weather events around the world, such as wildfires and storms, were the major driver behind $107bn in insured losses ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It has been a beautiful, hot August winter day in the Middle of March, and the ocean water is playing right along. “Weather is always pretty variable, and as far back as we ...

Agribusiness accounts for roughly a fifth of Brazil’s economy and about 40% of exports. While it is a major economic engine, it is also responsible for over 90% of deforestation and about a quarter of ...

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, little-visited tropical rainforest known as the ‘lungs of Africa’.

“Current evaluations of the heat tolerance of insects such as moths, flies, and beetles paint a differentiated – and at the same time alarming – picture,” explains study author Dr. Kim Holzmann, ...

Nuquí is a remote coastal region located in Colombia’s Chocó Department, where dense tropical rainforest meets the vast Pacific Ocean. Known for its biodiversity and isolation, the area remains ...

Belinda Medlyn receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the NSW government, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Bush Heritage Australia, Arid Recovery, Australian Forest and Wood ...

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face deforestation. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Preventing illegal road building could ...

Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...

A new study predicts that by 2100, the Amazon rainforest could experience up to 150 days of hot drought conditions each year, causing mass tree die-offs. Reading time 3 minutes When it comes to ...