we set up an experiment in the Daintree rainforest focusing on tropical trees between 15 and 30 meters tall. Using a canopy crane to access the treetops, we installed custom-made leaf-heater boxes ...

A tropical rainforest is different from a temperate rainforest because it is hot and wet due to lots of rain. The plants and animals that live in a tropical rainforest are adapted to live in ...

These plants are called epiphytes ... the teak tree and the Indian elephant - both have adapted to flourish in the tropical rainforest biome. The film ends with a reflection that the natural ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, raising concerns about their long-term resilience.

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

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, home to ...

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 ( top) versus two years later ( bottom ). The tree ...