My gut tells me there are very few Americans living in Nicaragua. As I took a closer look at Nicaragua it started to look ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Across the globe, up to 20 percent of tropical rainforests ... other global rainforest challenges,” Covey says. “Widespread deforestation paired with a rapidly changing climate are notably ...

Amazon Could Survive Long-Term Drought but at a High Cost May 15, 2025 — The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate ... of Endangered Tropical Tree Discover ...

Covering more than two million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary secrets—and some beautiful ones too. The Amazon rainforest is the most ...

In the following days, Sanderson, an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, turned to the side project that has consumed his life for much of the past two decades: a digital map ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Imagine pedaling from the sun-drenched beaches of the **Pacific Ocean** to the lush, tropical shores of the **Caribbean Sea**, traversing dense rainf ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A rainfall gauge. We can measure the weather using weather instruments. For example, an anemometer measures wind ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In Rocky Mountain National Park, 415 square miles of mountain terrain are protected—but not from effects of climate ...