By Petro Kotzé The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...

Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international ...

Tropical rainforests are a canary in the coal mine of climate change. K. E. D. Coan – Jul 28, 2021 2:18 pm | 12 Credit: Howard Kingsnorth / Getty Images ...

In Southeast Asia, rainforests are stressed more from land use and species fragmentation than they are from climate, except for areas of peatlands that are, during El Nino years, now more vulnerable ...

Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, potentially because of climate change, according to an international study published May 18 in ...

The aim of the Paris Agreement is climate neutrality by 2050. Tropical rainforests are critical to the cause, because they offset 9 gigatons of CO2 between 2005 and today — a resource that ...

BRASILIA – Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate c… ...

But the outlook for tropical forests nonetheless remains tenuous, with the impacts of climate […] There were some hopeful developments for tropical rainforest conservation in 2022, ...

Climate. The climate of tropical rainforests is evident in their name. “Tropical” means that rainforests are usually warm and humid.

Climate change has led to an increase in temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius across the basin, and to more frequent severe droughts. The droughts of 2005, 2010 and 2015-16 were among the worst in ...

Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international ...