Patchouli thrives in Indonesia’s tropical climate, which supplies over 80% of the global market. Prices for one kilogram of patchouli oil for farmers can be up to 2.4 million rupiah ($147).

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Demand for the patchouli plant’s oils has skyrocketed in recent years, and so too has the number of farmers in the region who ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

That’s nearly 10 times longer than previous evidence for African rainforest occupation, and more than twice as long as the next most recent human rainforest habitat globally, found in Southeast Asia .

But Asia will burn even more ... in wood pellet supply by 2030 from tropical countries such as Vietnam, Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia. That’s where rainforests now play a vital role in ...

monsoon rainforest patches. Although they’ve been harvested and cared for by First Nations groups for millennia, the patches remain largely unsurveyed by modern science as the tropical climate ...

From the tropical monsoon season of Southeast ... the river deltas of Bangladesh, the Amazon rainforest, and the coastal villages of Southeast Asia. Elevating structures on timber or bamboo ...

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests ... for habitation in African rainforests was around 18,000 years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came ...

Thailand located in Southeast Asia boasts a tropical climate that significantly influences ... marine life and mangrove ...