Nauyaca Waterfalls are a spectacular pair of cascading falls located near Dominical on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast. Surrounded by dense tropical rainforest, the waterfalls plunge into natural ...

The Aviary's new waterfall is 15 feet tall. A familiar room in Pittsburgh’s National Aviary looks like new. Tropical birds flit freely overhead and perch in the trees of the Aviary’s Tropical ...

The bloom of the purple orchid tree, native to south China, growing inside the Garfield Park Conservatory on the southside of Indianapolis on Jan. 13. The Conservatory contains more than 10,000 square ...

"A Dream Come True" read the headline that ran atop an editorial published in the Topeka Daily Capital on May 24, 1974, the day the Topeka Zoo opened its Tropical Rainforest. The editorial expressed ...

It's one of 16 remaining locations across the country.

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A ...

Waterfalls and hiking are synonymous with adventure-seekers in Costa Rica. There is no shortage of spectacular displays of crashing waters in the destination. This holds true for the Las Monas ...

A backpacker who was hounded by a cassowary on a Far North mountain has survived a terrifying night in the rainforest where ...

Record-breaking forest loss in 2024: Tropical primary rainforest loss surged to 6.7 million hectares—nearly double the previous year—driven primarily by fire for the first time on record. Latin ...

Did you know that forests cover about 31% of the Earth's land area? From the icy taiga to the sweltering jungle, our planet is home to a spectacular variety of forest ecosystems. We often categorise ...

The world’s hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson, ...