The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

The aim of this adventure was to reach a high crotch in a 150-foot-tall Shorea tree, whose genus includes some of the world’s tallest. A spot among its high branches would offer an ideal view of ...

Ziccardi spent more than four years climbing trees nearly 200 feet tall in the central Amazon, measuring the fates of absorbed photons in thousands of leaves across many species, canopy heights ...

Since the launch of our CSR initiative, the HERALD Tree Planting Campaign on September 8, we have planted 183 trees in the ...

The canopy crane experience A traditional rainforest walkway or tower provides an up-close yet stationary view of the treetops. But the new canopy crane at Sacha Lodge, a private ecological ...

Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies "what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research ...

The stresses of climate change are driving dozens of species of monkeys and lemurs that normally shelter and feed high in the tree canopy to the forest floor, a new study shows.