ICEYE's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation closes that gap. SAR imagery operates day and night through all weather ...

Cloud forests, like the Kona Cloud Forest on the west side of Hawaii Island, are in jeopardy. Global warming is one culprit, and another is land clearing for development by landowners unaware of the ...

April showers bring Mayflowers or at -least it used to be that way. Some parts of our island have had an extended lack of rain this spring. Everything is topsy-turvy when it comes to weather patterns, ...

An expedition to one of Earth’s most remote corners yielded a remarkable new species, but the discovery comes with an urgent warning Imagine a forest so high, cold and remote that almost no scientist ...

A colorful new butterfly species that lives high up in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains has been identified by scientists. Researchers have given the species the scientific name Actinote ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new initiative led by Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment plans to financially reward conservationists of the planet’s tropical forests. In an ...

The Smithsonian Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) is a global network of scientists and forest research sites dedicated to advancing long-term study of the world's forests. Image credit: ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...

It's the only one of its kind in the continental United States.