Learning what kills giant trees is a question of increasing urgency. In 2022, a Nature study conducted in Australia suggested that the death rates of tropical trees there have doubled since the 1980s.

IN THE GARDEN There’s a Reason Those Tropical Plants Look Good Enough to Eat Some of the most visually appealing ones are also delicious. Here’s how to choose — and grow — the best ones.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida, is home to the only tropical rainforest in the continental U.S.

A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...

While only one species of pawpaw is cold-hardy in New England, there are four to five species still found in Florida.

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Pervasive within-species spatial repulsion among adult tropical trees. Science, 2023; 381 (6657): 563 DOI: 10.1126/science.adg7021 ...

Life Tropical tree species that grow far apart can better avoid ‘enemies’ Trees in rainforests that grow far away from others of the same species may be more likely to survive than close ...

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 ...

We can't do tree ring dating in tropical forests because they don't make consistent growth rings. My guess would be many of these individuals are hundreds, or maybe even more than 1,000 years old.

When hunting for the world’s largest tropical trees, watch your step. In the Panamanian jungle, vigilance is key: To venture into the thick, teeming understory is to duck under the webs of orb-weaver ...

Tropical forests can harbor hundreds of species of trees in a square mile, but scientists often struggle to understand how such a diversity of species can coexist. In a study published in Science, ...