There are approximately 12,000 fern species growing worldwide, most of them found in forests, woodlands or tropical regions. While it would be impossible to collect all of these, most of us ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

The calling of tropical birds and a serenade of the coquí are things you can experience in the lone tropical rainforest of the ... or the over 150 species of ferns. If you're lucky, you'll ...

As its name suggests, Kaua'i's Fern Grotto is a natural lava rock grotto covered in hanging ferns and tropical foliage ... a short nature walk through the rainforest full of native Hawaiian ...

In our studies we focus on two main islands of the Mascarene Islands - Mauritius and Réunion - as an example of fern diversification on geologically-young tropical oceanic islands. The results of this ...

ecologists and space research specialists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil has found that despite efforts by the government to preserve the country's coastal tropical forests ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico — Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for a tourist from Wisconsin they say got lost in the dense tropical rain forest of El Yunque in the U.S. territory's east.