It’s hard to talk about the rainforests without an abundance of superlatives and mind-boggling statistics coming in to play. Within these unique environments exist a 300-mile-wide river (the Amazon), ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In the stark sheep pastures of Ireland’s ...

This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the stark sheep pastures of Ireland’s Maumturk Mountains, just a few gnarled trees cling to the hillside, ...

When you hear ‘The Isle of Man’, the last thing that likely comes to mind is the exotic landscape of a thriving rainforest. And yet, a new temperate rainforest is set to become the islands largest ...

Rainfall is the most important factor controlling how much carbon is stored in the soil of coastal temperate rainforests. That’s according to researchers who used machine-learning to characterize ...

An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests where some of the world's rarest mosses, lichens and liverworts are vanishing, ecologists have warned. Also known as Celtic ...

When you think of the English moors, you probably think of vast expanses of grass, wind, and rain, the land of Brontë sisters characters and perpetual fog. But in this video from Max Smith, “The Wet ...

Imagine a great, green rainforest thriving inside the icy land that exists today. It might sound like science fiction, but research shows that Antarct.

Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...