Can a new way to measure tropical rainforest vulnerability help save them? A team of top scientists, brought together by the National Geographic Society, built an index to detect which forests ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest. For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is ...

World’s second biggest rainforest will soon reopen to large-scale logging. The lifting of the 20-year logging moratorium in part of the Congo is fueling disputes over how the forest can be kept ...

Katie Orlinsky is a Brooklyn, New York–based photographer and National Geographic Explorer since 2022. This story appears in the March 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Related Topics ...

Deep in the Costa Rican rainforests, where howler monkeys and pumas roam, conservationists are working alongside travellers on new citizen science projects, introducing hi-tech processes to ...

Puerto Rico’s stunning new trail traverses a tropical rainforest. The pioneering 40-mile path through El Yunque National Forest will take you from beaches to mountain peaks.

The world’s hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson ...

That’s why National Geographic Society, with the support of Rolex, created a unique tropical rainforest vulnerability index (TFVI), with leading scientists and conservationists to detect and ...

The United States has about 193 million acres of land preserved within 155 different national forests, but El Yunque National ...

In the sixth century, the most obvious sight would be the scattered, dark orange structures of clay bricks, a contrast to the carpet of dark green tropical rainforest, alongside the Batanghari ...

The world's tallest known tropical tree has been found—and climbed. A giant tree more than 330 feet tall was identified in Borneo from the air, and then climbed with a tape measure, at ...