Previous research has shown that parts of the southeastern Amazon now emit more carbon than they absorb, due to a combination ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

“Climate change is so pervasive that it will affect those areas as well,” he said. Maurer said he has noticed how climate change is affecting birds in his tropical home of north Queensland, Australia, ...

A UC Berkeley-led analysis of tree mortality after two recent Amazonian droughts shows that “hot drought” conditions, which are becoming more frequent, are leading to tree dieoffs and reducing the ...

The oceanic conditions that churn up the very strongest of hurricanes and typhoons are heating up in the North Atlantic and ...

Over the past weekend, activity in the tropics began to ramp up with the 4th storm of the 2025 season developing and two new areas to watch for potential tropical development. The frontal boundary ...

A climate expert warns Indonesia is no longer safe from tropical cyclones as changing storm patterns increase destructive landfall risks.

Small, pale spots on the reddish-orange landscape of Mars have turned out to be a new clue that parts of the planet may once have hosted wet, oasis-like environments with humid conditions and rainfall ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations.