Most days, you’ll find Joost van Haren tromping through Arizona’s only tropical rainforest. An assistant research professor at the UA, van Haren works in the rainforest at Biosphere 2—in the middle of ...

Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore these ...

Ecologists studying the tropical forest biome in Biosphere 2 near Tucson, say it is very similar to being in a natural rainforest. Credit: Chris Richards/University of Arizona PHOENIX – Step inside ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs) made by the palm oil industry and adopted by producers of other crops as well focus on preserving rainforests ...

The online tropical day out aims to explore how plants, people, food and wildlife are all connected.

The total land surface of the Earth has about a third of its area covered by forests. The forest is highly significant in ...

image: Bird species Syndactyla rufosuperciliata. A genetic and computational analysis of birds suggests that the Andean and Atlantic tropical forests, which are now almost a thousand kilometers apart, ...

Step inside Biosphere 2’s tropical rainforest, which thrives beneath an enormous glass dome, and visitors are met by a wall of warm humidity and lush greenery. The sprawling complex north of Tucson ...