Climate change is quietly rearranging the Amazon and Andes—winners and losers are emerging, and the Northern Andes may hold ...

Biologists who set out to better understand the effects of climate change on plant species in tropical mountain regions found that even small variations in temperature and moisture can have massive ...

Nitrogen shortage limits young tropical forest growth, slowing carbon capture that could help fight climate change.

Environmental research in the tropics is heavily skewed, according to a comprehensive study led by Umeå University. Humid ...

Tropical forests still absorb vast amounts of carbon, but new evidence suggests that small deforestation clearings cause ...

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 ...

Asst Prof Gianmarco Mengaldo and a team of researchers use advanced reanalysis datasets to analyse the tropical Indo-Pacific region’s evolving weather systems. A recent study published in Nature ...

A recent study provides groundbreaking insights into long-term changes in tropical weather patterns that are leading to an increased frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy ...