With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.

"Referred to locally as Tous by some Tambrauw and Maybrat clans, the glider is a sacred animal. Considered a manifestation of ...

Crabbs Tropical Treat, a classic drive-in in Hanover, opened for its new season on March 18. The business, which opened in 1953, is known for its mid-century neon design. Customers, including ...

I’ve been working through my bucket list this summer, and right near the top was trekking through a tropical rainforest. In my mind, that always meant at least a plane ride's worth of travel—me in ...

If you roll your eyes when passing the corner of Clark and Ohio streets in River North, you’re not the only one. Sneering or even clutching your pearls go back more than 30 years on this site, to the ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s large tropical rainforest, covering roughly 2.7 million square miles. It comprises more than half of the world’s remaining rainforests. It is crisscrossed by ...

On a recent Friday, I was enjoying a Korean fried chicken lettuce wrap under a lush canopy of greenery. Stars slowly twinkled overhead. I could hear the sound of tropical birds chirping and monkeys ...

The richest part of a tropical rainforest is often the hardest to study: the canopy, where much of its biodiversity lives beyond reach from the ground. Francis Hallé helped change that by finding ways ...

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 ...

Welcome to my office,” says Juan Thomas, as his plane soars over Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. The pilot for African Parks, a conservation NGO, puts on an incongruous playlist ...