Scientists predict another 21-40% will disappear by 2050 if current trends continue. With each hectare lost, countless species face extinction, from tiny insects to magnificent jaguars.

Additionally, 60% of the 30 species examined could resprout after disturbance, highlighting the ecological resilience of cool temperate rainforests. These discoveries have significant implications ...

Fewer than 15 years before, this sprawling Appalachian temperate rainforest near the South Carolina border — home to a third of Western North Carolina's rare or endangered species — was set to ...

A logged coupe in Takayna/Tarkine shows the aftermath of native forest clearing, part of what conservationists argue is an ongoing threat to one of the world’s last temperate rainforests.

As the climate became drier between 280,000 and 205,000 years ago, rainforest-dwelling species including Protemnodon vanished from the area, replaced by those adapted to a dry, arid environment.