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 ...

The new Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park is also impressive, according to Aliana Leong, Hospitality Professor from Macau University of Science and Technology. It envelops 1 million acres ...

So the clue was, ‘This temperate coral undergoes quiescence in the winter. Another word for this is … ?’” Anya Brown has ...

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 ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

The Amazon rainforest is as pristine a place as most people can imagine, but even there, the effects of a changing climate are playing out. Now, research suggests that many of the region’s most ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inaugural 'National Geographic 33' list includes the likes of Don Cheadle, Selena Gomez, Sterlin Harjo, Michelle Yeoh and Jason Momoa. Skip to main content Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu ...

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 ...

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 ...