The garden of Earthly delights that is Panama’s Barro Colorado Island. Courtesy of Smithsonian. It happened on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, home to a one-of-a-kind rainforest laboratory that ...

The Parque Natural Metropolitano, a tropical rainforest within city limits, is one of the most exhilarating experiences Panama City has to offer.This 573-acre park is home to more than 200 bird ...

Restoration efforts are now underway. Running from Panama to northern Ecuador, this is the world’s wettest rainforest — and the least deforested among the major tropical zones. Sulawesi. Photo credit: ...

L ightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the lowland rainforests of Panama, one species of towering tropical tree may ...

The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights Even after a century of research, Barro Colorado in Panama continues to shed light on natural life Photograph: Christian Ziegler ...

The rainforest in Panama is highly diverse. A new study showed that herbivores and plant defenses against them drive the extreme diversity in tropical rainforests.