In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

The Tropical Climate Update is published weekly during the northern wet season (October to April). During the dry season (May to September) it is published fortnightly.

Recent data from the University of Maryland show the tropics lost 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) of primary rainforest in 2024 — nearly double the loss of 2023 and the highest on record.

The Tropical Forest Finance Facility, proposed by Brazil ahead of hosting COP30, the U.N. climate summit, in November, could also help the world’s forests, Taylor says.

New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest ...

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

Indian Ocean Dipole Sustained changes in the difference between sea surface temperatures of the tropical western and eastern Indian Ocean are known as the Indian Ocean Dipole or IOD. The IOD is one of ...

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Roughly 190,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service lands were impacted in Tropical Storm Helene, a Forest Service district ranger announced late last month.