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After months of repair work following Tropical Storm Helene, new trails and parking have been opened in Old Fort by the US ...
Puerto Rico’s new NorEste (Northeast) Trail takes hikers from the coral reefs and bioluminescent lagoon of Fajardo to the highest peak in El Yunque National Forest—a 28,000-acre tropical ...
which typically dominate old-growth forests. “Big trees represent less than 5% of stems, but store up to 50% of tropical forest biomass,” lead author Ferry Slik of China’s Xishuangbanna ...
Landscapes with only secondary forest may not represent a panacea for the conservation of tropical biodiversity." Effective conservation efforts should include maintenance of large old-growth ...
The accelerated proliferation of lianas in old-growth forest due to natural disturbance may be altering forest structure, regeneration, and functioning. Lianas are the bridges of the tropical forest.
Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. Paleobotanists have reconstructed this fossilized forest ...
They identified 14,401 instances of deforestation — most of it illegal — covering 186,290 hectares, a loss of more than 1% of the remaining old-growth forest. The team identified two hotspots ...
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The remains of a 53-million-year-old "polar forest" were unearthed during excavations near Macquarie Harbor in western ...
I'm making my way along a dense rainforest path ... tropical forests at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. "That's important because it means you can limit spillover effects from nearby ...
A tropical storm watch has issued for areas of South Carolina, from South Santee River to Little River Inlet on Sunday. A screenshot of Tropical Storm Claudette's projected path. A screenshot of ...