El Niño has often been linked with weaker monsoons—but experts warn this year has the potential to be unpredictable.

The official stats confirm the way it feels: Tucson’s monsoon rainfall is slightly below average so far this summer. As of Monday afternoon, the city had 1.88 inches since the monsoon season ...

Tropical forests, often described as the lungs of the planet, may be edging closer to a dangerous threshold as droughts ...

Predating the Amazon, Australia's Daintree Rainforest is a 135-million-year-old marvel. Discover the ancient biodiversity ...

Coorg (Kodagu) does not announce itself loudly. It draws you in with coffee-scented air, dense green slopes, and a quiet sense of distance from the everyday. If you are planning a refined break in the ...

Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the ...

An extra helping of nitrogen can double the growth of tropical trees in a recovering forest, vastly boosting the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2) they can absorb for a decade, according to a new study.

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face deforestation. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Preventing illegal road building could ...

Seventeen collared falconets are captured in a single image on Dec 5 in Yingjiang county, Yunnan province.[Photo by He Haiyan/For chinadaily.com.cn] Despite being the size of sparrows, collared ...

Tropical storms and monsoon rains have wreaked havoc across Asia in the past week, with the death toll continuing to rise after extreme floods in large parts of Southeast Asia as well as Sri Lanka.