Deep within the northern Peten rainforest, massive ancient Maya pyramids remain entirely obscured beneath an aggressive ...

Nyungwe Forest National Park in Nyamagabe, southwestern Rwanda, preserves an ancient montane rainforest and a striking canopy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kinkajou in the rainforest canopy is captured on film using thermal binoculars. Lucy Hughes In the pitch darkness of 3 a.m., ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet the largest share of ...

Assumptions that tropical forest canopies protect from the effects of climate change are unfounded, say researchers. Crucial strongholds for biodiversity are under threat as temperatures are rising in ...

Birds like the black-fronted nunbird help information flow through the Amazon rainforest. During an expedition to a remote area of the Peruvian Amazon, working with a falconer, members of the Forest ...

It's a unique way to experience Antigua's natural environment. The harness clips in with a solid click. A guide checks the line, gives a nod, and then you step forward. For a second, there’s nothing ...

We know less about the rainforest canopy, where most of the world's species live than we do about the surface of Mars or the bottom of the ocean. However, that is about to change thanks to GEDI—a NASA ...

Imagine ascending 100 feet into the crown of an old-growth tree in the Amazon’s primary rainforest, pausing for a quiet toast in a canopy perch that feels worlds away from everything. Or gliding ...

The space laser GEDI has allowed researchers to 3D map Earth's rainforests for the first time ever, helping us understand the forest canopy and providing vital information for understanding Earth's ...

In the pitch darkness of 3 a.m., ecologist Lucy Hughes stands on a portable metal platform 50 feet up a tree in Panama’s Cocobolo Nature Reserve, scanning the rainforest around her with thermal ...