PANAMA CITY-- Tropical Depression Eighteen formed in the Caribbean Monday morning and is expected to become Tropical Storm Rafael Monday as it continues to organize and move near Jamaica, according to ...

Today may be Election Day, but Bay County residents are keeping a wary eye on Tropical Storm Rafael. The county still sits well outside of the National Hurricane Center's cone of uncertainty. The ...

PANAMA CITY — Local officials are on high alert as Tropical Storm Helene approaches the Florida coast. In a Tuesday press release, Panama City officials announced that the city "is conducting a ...

Barro Colorado, a man-made island in the middle of the Panama Canal, is home to a research-rich outpost of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, a living, breathing, jungle-forest research ...

Now travel to Panama is easier than ever. New flight routes have recently debuted from several airlines departing from ...

At the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, researchers track swarms of carnivorous army ants and the birds that follow them. A new documentary reveals a glimpse of life, and research, in the ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

As tropical forests experience chronic drying and more extreme droughts due to climate change, some plants are adapting by ...

Trees lost many surface roots in drought but grew more deep roots that reached wetter soil. Fungal partners helped roots take up water.

Lightning 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 have ...