It's a well-established fact that forests and water are deeply connected. For decades, paired-watershed experiments—a ...

The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...

Perched high above the forest floor, the tropical canopy is a reservoir of biodiversity that has long resisted scrutiny. Its inaccessibility has left many of its inhabitants — orchids, epiphytes, ants ...

Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a whale watching and wildlife viewing tour where you may spot humpback or killer whales. Ride the ...

How much is a rain forest worth? Until recently the answer was: virtually nothing. A tropical rain forest provides habitat for untold species of animals and varieties of plants; modulates the climate ...

Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington is huge, and there’s so much to see and do that it can be hard to plan an itinerary that doesn’t leave out something monumental. On the ...

The canoes slip away from the dock, the morning mist still clinging to Anangucocha Lake in eastern Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park. The water is the ink black of old tea, the paddles vanishing beneath ...

Rebecca Patterson thought that Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rain Forest would be the perfect place to elope. The self-described “moss and lichen aficionado” was fond of waterfall hikes close to her ...