Zoonotic and other infectious diseases are emerging and reemerging rapidly in recent times owing to altered climatic conditions, changing lifestyles, and unhealthy living conditions. The WHO listed 20 ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

Most living things don’t cope well with having millions of volts put through them, but one tropical tree species appears to benefit from being struck by lightning.

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx oleifera trees often benefit from lightning strikes that ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall over southeast Queensland on Saturday evening and has weakened into a trough that extends into NSW. The NSW SES (State Emergency Service) is leading the ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease ...

Singapore’s 5th zoological park, Rainforest Wild ASIA is poised to be up and running pretty soon, and we had the chance to take a good and surprisingly active first look at its fresh new premises.

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman's brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions. The previously healthy 60-year-old ...

Several years ago, an international consortium of researchers revealed that based on a sample of tropical old-growth forest plots across the Congo Basin, the rainforest appears to be storing ...