A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

A study looking at land and atmosphere interactions in the Amazon Basin across four decades found that 52-72% of the rainfall decline in the southern Amazon is due to large-scale deforestation.

The Hoh Rain Forest in Washington’s Olympic National Park is one of the few temperate rainforests in the U.S., offering mossy trails, towering old-growth trees, and abundant wildlife. From short loops ...

Deforestation in the Amazon has been identified as the main driver of declining rainfall, responsible for nearly three-quarters of the drop in dry-season precipitation since the mid-1980s. Between ...

Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...

Rainfall isn't distributed fairly across the planet. Some nations are locked in a near-permanent relationship with downpours, ...

Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows ...

Geoengineering could protect the Amazon rainforest from climate change, new research shows. Stratospheric aerosol injection ...

The Upper Hoh Rain Forest road is finally set to open again. That means that Washington’s iconic temperate rainforest, one of the most-visited parts of Olympic National Park, will reopen on Thursday, ...

I’m no stranger when it comes to camping or putting a few days worth of gear in my backpack and hitting the trail. I love the outdoors. The nature and beauty in Washington state is one of the reasons ...