Rainforests News
July 19, 2025
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July 17, 2025 — Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their ...
July 16, 2025 — After devastating wildfires scorched the Brazilian Pantanal, an unexpected phenomenon unfolded—more jaguars began arriving at a remote wetland already known for having the densest jaguar population on Earth. Scientists discovered that not only did ...
July 10, 2025 — People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut feelings surprisingly line up with what scientists ...
July 7, 2025 — Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California by monopolizing pollen sources and overwhelming native pollinators. A new study reveals they remove up to 80% of pollen in a ...
July 4, 2025 — Forests aren’t keeping up with today’s climate chaos. While temperatures soar within decades, tree populations take 100 to 200 years to shift in response. A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and modern data reveals this dramatic lag—and ...
July 3, 2025 — Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising culprit: ordinary thunderstorms. These quick, fierce storms, powered by climate change, are toppling trees with intense ...
July 3, 2025 — When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ ...
June 27, 2025 — Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter, they’re secretly stashing 65 million tonnes of carbon far below ...
June 24, 2025 — Wildfires don’t just leave behind scorched earth—they leave a toxic legacy in Western rivers that can linger for nearly a decade. A sweeping new study analyzed over 100,000 water samples from more than 500 U.S. watersheds and revealed that ...
June 15, 2025 — Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark taxa" make up a shocking 83% of ectomycorrhizal species fungi ...
June 15, 2025 — Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant cousins were vital seed spreaders for large-fruited trees in South America. ...
June 14, 2025 — A pioneering study reveals how archaeologists' satellite tools can be repurposed to tackle climate change. By using AI and satellite LiDAR imagery from NASA and ESA, researchers have found a faster, ...
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June 30, 2025 — Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally set, controlled ...
May 30, 2025 — Researchers determined how much outdoor particulate pollution affects indoor air quality. Their study concluded pollution from inversion and dust ...
May 30, 2025 — Forest-based agroforestry can restore forests, promote livelihoods, and combat climate change, but emerging agroforestry initiatives focusing only on tree planting is leading to missed opportunities ...
May 28, 2025 — Many bat species native to Germany, such as the Leisler's bat, are forest specialists. However, as it is becoming increasingly hard for them to find ...
May 28, 2025 — With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health, and even the weather. As ...
May 27, 2025 — Researchers conducted a systematic review of 99 scientific publications that compared the flora or fauna of old-growth forests, managed forests and clearcut sites in boreal Europe. The reviewed ...
May 26, 2025 — A new study shows that monitoring and managing select bird species can provide benefits for other species within specific ...
May 24, 2025 — In nature, ecosystems are tightly linked through the flow of organisms, detritus, and nutrients across boundaries arbitrarily imagined by humans. These systems are deeply in tune with seasonal ...
May 23, 2025 — As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt. Salinization of freshwater and ...
May 23, 2025 — New international research demonstrates global-scale patterns in how El Ni o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences mangrove growth and degradation. Previously, impacts had only been documented at ...
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May 22, 2025 — New research shows how rapidly proliferating turf algae are waging 'chemical warfare' to inhibit the recovery of kelp forests along Maine's warming ...
May 21, 2025 — Songbirds who make the arduous flight from their nesting sites in northern boreal forests to warm, southern climates in the winter may be rewarded for their journey with greater genetic ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the ...
May 20, 2025 — Forests play a crucial role in promoting health and wellbeing, but not all forests provide the same benefits. A large-scale study demonstrates how specific forest characteristics -- such as canopy ...
May 20, 2025 — A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal ...
May 15, 2025 — The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study ...
May 15, 2025 — Natural ecosystems comprise groups of species capable of living in the specific conditions of a biological system. However, if we visit a specific natural area, we will not find all the species ...
May 15, 2025 — A new study shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand ...
May 14, 2025 — Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers have analyzed 917 native forest plant species in Central ...
May 13, 2025 — In order for trees to grow, they need to control their water balance meticulously. A study shows how trees react to drought -- and revises previous ...
May 12, 2025 — Pink salmon, Purple Asian clams, marine invertebrates that form spaghetti-like colonies and a nematode worm that causes extensive deaths of trees are among the new entries in experts' watchlist ...
May 9, 2025 — Scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo, and reveals a critical ...
May 8, 2025 — New report shows drastic decline in endangered primates and calls for conservation ...
May 8, 2025 — Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The ...
May 7, 2025 — Scientists say human-caused climate change led to 15,000 additional early deaths from wildfire air pollution in the continental United States during the 15-year period ending in ...
May 7, 2025 — New research has shown how small, inexpensive drones combined with free, open source software can be used by community forest organizations to calculate and monitor the amount of carbon stored in ...
May 6, 2025 — Termites -- infamous for their ability to destroy wood -- are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...
May 6, 2025 — Biologists have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucat n Peninsula. The ...
May 2, 2025 — Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...
May 1, 2025 — A groundbreaking study reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving. Researchers analyzed 36 million bird observations shared by ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Forest Management Can Influence Health Benefits
- Thousands of Animal Species Threatened by Climate Change
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Amazon Could Survive Long-Term Drought but at a High Cost
- Human Activity Reduces Plant Diversity Hundreds of Kilometers Away
- Scientists Use Fossils to Assess the Health of Florida's Largest Remaining Seagrass Bed: Surprisingly, It's Doing Well!
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Warming Climate Making Fine Particulate Matter from Wildfires More Deadly and Expensive
- Pioneering Research Reveals Tree-Mendous Potential of Inexpensive Drones to Help Community Forests Flourish and Unlock Restoration Funding
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Study Shows How Millions of Bird Sightings Unlock Precision Conservation
- Intensifying Farmland Can Sometimes Degrade Biodiversity More Than Expansion
- Invasive Rats and Rainforest Mammals Are Sharing Gut Microbes as Urban Areas Grow
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Extreme Monsoon Changes Threaten the Bay of Bengal's Role as a Critical Food Source
- Elephant Instead of Wild Boar? What Could Have Been in Europe
- 'Wood You Believe It?' Engineers Fortify Wood With Eco-Friendly Nano-Iron
- Climate Change Increases the Risk of Simultaneous Wildfires
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Paying Fishers to Release Endangered Catches Can Aid Conservation, but Only If Done Right
- Nature Accounting in Colombia Makes Sound Economic Case for Protecting Native Ecosystems
Monday, April 21, 2025
- What If Mother Earth Could Sue for Mistreatment?
- Introduced Trees Are Becoming More Common in the Eastern United States, While Native Diversity Declines
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Soil Conditions Significantly Increase Rainfall in World's Megastorm Hotspots
- Exposure to Wildfire Smoke Linked With Worsening Mental Health Conditions
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- How Elephants Plan Their Journeys: New Study Reveals Energy-Saving Strategies
- If Native Plants Are Going to Survive Climate Change, They Need Our Help to Move -- Here's How to Do It Safely
- The Devastating Human Impact on Biodiversity
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
- Chimpanzees Act as 'engineers', Choosing Materials to Make Tools Based on Structural and Mechanical Properties
- How Extreme Weather Threatens Nature's Essential Services
- Introduced Pacific Oysters Provide Biodiversity Benefits in Port River
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Shrinking Andean Glaciers Threaten Water Supply of 90 Million People, Global Policy Makers Warn
- Aotearoa Once Home to Elephant Seals
- Weather Emergencies Affect Older Adults' Views on Climate and Health
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Red Coral Colonies Survive a Decade After Being Transplanted in the Medes Islands
- Coastal Guardians Pioneer a New Way to Protect the Florida Keys' Shorelines
- Time Is Not the Driving Influence of Forest Carbon Storage
- Conservation Efforts Are Bringing Species Back from the Brink, Even as Overall Biodiversity Falls
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Top Locations for Ocean Energy Production Worldwide Revealed
- How a Hummingbird Chick Acts Like a Caterpillar to Survive
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
- Nearly Half of Popular Tropical Plant Group Related to Birds-of-Paradise and Bananas Are Threatened With Extinction
- Scientists Develop Advanced Forest Monitoring Systems: Will Forests Monitor Themselves in the Future?
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Tropical Forests in the Americas Are Struggling to Keep Pace With Climate Change
- AI Has 'great Potential' For Detecting Wildfires, New Study of the Amazon Rainforest Suggests
- Plants Struggled for Millions of Years After the World's Worst Climate Catastrophe
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Satellite Image Analysis Delivers New Insight Into the Functional Diversity of Tropical Forests
- The Pot Is Already Boiling for 2% of the World's Amphibians
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Who Gets the Lion's Share? Ecologists Highlight Disparities in Global Biodiversity Conservation Funding
- Sea Otters Help Kelp Forests Recover -- But How Fast Depends on Where They Are
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Researchers Make Recommendations for Promoting Sustainable Development in Mangrove Forest Areas
- Shark Activity in South African Reef Revealed by Citizen Scientist Scuba Divers
- Beyond the Burn: Harvesting Dead Wood to Reduce Wildfires and Store Carbon
- New Spatial Mechanism for the Coexistence of Tree Species
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- New England's Salt Marshes Store 10 Million Cars' Worth of Carbon -- And Add Another 15,000-Worth Every Year
- Protected Habitats Aren't Enough to Save Endangered Species, Study Finds
- Restoring Wildlife Habitats in Wealthy Nations Could Drive Extinctions in Species-Rich Regions, Experts Warn
- Foraging Seals Enable Scientists to Measure Fish Abundance Across the Vast Pacific Ocean
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Where Do Invasive Species Spread and Why? Researchers Take a Novel Approach to Find the Answer
- Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age
- Models Show Intensifying Wildfires in a Warming World Due to Changes in Vegetation and Humidity; Only a Minor Role for Lightning
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Fewer Forest Fires Burn in North America Today Than in the Past--and That's a Bad Thing
- Why We Need to Expand the Search for Climate-Friendly Microalgae
- Colorado Forests Are Releasing More Carbon Than They Capture Each Year
- Cold Temperatures Promote Spread of a Bird Pink Eye Pathogen at Winter Feeders
Monday, February 10, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Forest Landowner Motivation to Control Invasive Species Depends on Land Use, Study Shows
- New Study Assesses Impact of Agricultural Research Investments on Biodiversity, Land Use