A new study published in Science Advances overturns a long-standing paradigm in climate science that stronger Northern Hemisphere summer insolation produces stronger tropical rainfall. Instead, a precisely dated 129,000-year ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2025
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Tropical cyclones can unleash extensive devastation, as recent storms that swept over Jamaica and the Philippines made unmistakably clear. Accurate weather forecasts that buy more time to prepare are crucial for saving lives ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2025
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Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian found an unconventional method to understand how rainforests will survive with climate change—making tea with living leaves at the top of the rainforest canopy.
Ecology
Nov 22, 2025
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How do you cool yourself on a hot day? Perhaps you find shade, switch on a fan or retreat to air conditioning? But spare a thought for tropical forest trees. As the climate warms, they must either adjust to the heat, adapt ...
Ecology
Sep 6, 2025
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The Philippines, like other tropical countries, is known more for its balmy climate than for hailstorms. But a new Philippine study—the first of its kind—has found that the country's hottest days are, in fact, more likely ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2025
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Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold.
Evolution
Aug 24, 2025
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More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study.
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2025
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Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third (25–38%) since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes, compared to a world without climate change, with some species having declined in abundance by over 50%, ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2025
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The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, warmer regions, new research shows.
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2025
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Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier.
Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2025
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