The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

Researchers from the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the LMU University Hospital Munich, the ...

Researchers from the Munich Tropical Institute, the Tanzanian NIMR-MMRC, DZIF, together with colleagues from Bonn, have ...

Hurricane forecasters are carefully watching ocean temperatures in the Pacific for changes that could impact this year's ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ...