From a bird's eye view, the Amazon rainforest appears as a lush green mosaic of treetops stretching as far as the eye can see. It is home to countless animal and plant species, many of which are ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of ...

The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...

Each patch of tropical forest is doing more than sheltering wildlife—it's also quietly manufacturing rain on a massive scale, a new study finds. University of Leeds researchers estimate that every ...

This story was produced with assistance from the Pulitzer Center and additional support from the Pendleton Mazer Family Fund and the Whole Systems Foundation. [CLIP: Sound of the forest at ZF2] Daniel ...