Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living organisms shaped by climate and ...

Tropical rainforests face threats from global warming, with a study revealing past ecological changes and urging action to ...

Claire Tuohey-Mote joined UCANR in January 2025 and is working as a Staff Research Associate with the Small Farms Network. She is based in San Luis Obispo and will be working with small farmers in San ...

The study published in the Journal of Environmental Management in March concluded that open and moderately dense forests were ...

Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of ...

A late-season tropical cyclone could form near northern Australia next week, which would make this Australia’s most active cyclone season in six years. The influence of an equatorial Rossby wave ...

Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree ...

A pulse in a lesser-known tropical wave will bring increased risk of tropical cyclone activity over northern Australia in the coming week. Earth's tropical atmosphere contains a number of large-scale ...

Panama tree uses lightning to eliminate rivals Balsa trees get struck more than neighboring species Trees’ tissue may attract more lightning ...