The world’s largest forest, dominated by conifers, spans Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Scandinavia. One of Earth’s oldest ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. They have high temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year. Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...

The tropical index is calculated from terrestrial and freshwater populations from the Afrotropical, Indo-Pacific and Neotropical realms and from marine populations between the Tropics of Cancer and ...

Temperate rainforests need to take their place alongside tropical rainforests and the boreal forests of the north as ...

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction. "Using remote sensing and forest ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...

While the flora and fauna of temperate rainforests differ from their tropical counterparts, they act as both a vital source of biodiversity and a massive carbon sink. Another similarity they share ...

But when we drilled down further, we found the real problem. Barely 25% of the world's remaining tropical rainforests are still of high quality. For threatened species and those in decline ...

The Woodland Trust has unveiled a list of 11 of the “weird and wonderful” wildlife which make their home in temperate rainforests ... more threatened than their tropical counterparts ...