The Amazon rainforest, one of the largest remaining tropical rainforests on our planet, faces several threats that are slowly damaging its rich biodiversity. Illegal logging, rapidly increasing global ...

Bole of a very large individual of Tessmannia princeps, showing the numerous buttresses. Credit: photo by Andrea Bianchi, from Phytotaxa (2025). DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.694.2.1 A team of botanists ...

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing as carbon dioxide levels have risen, meaning these larger trees play a more important role in determining whether the ...

Thousands of native trees have been planted in a bid to create a new rainforest - in Devon. This winter has seen 2,500 native ...

A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. A total of around 100 mature trees were found growing in two village land forest reserves ...

Chemax says that wells located near deep rooted oil palm trees were particularly affected. For the past two years, some ...