Discover the importance of rainforests, Earth's life-support system, and how you can help protect them for a sustainable ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

The brainchild of Attorney General James Uthmeier and dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," the prison, Uthmeier said, would be built ...

It's rare enough to catch sight of birds-of-paradise. These cute birds are continuing to amaze with a unique finding that may ...

Here’s a snapshot of the 10 largest tropical rainforest regions: The Amazon is Earth’s largest ... From southern Mexico to Panama, Mesoamerica’s rainforests are hotspots for birds and amphibians.

Picture yourself cycling through vibrant tea plantations and lively villages, or biking deep within Kenya’s only tropical ...

Lianas are spreading in tropical forests, harming trees and cutting carbon storage. They thrive on rising CO2 and show up in ...

This prehistoric bird, capable of delivering deadly kicks, resembles something straight out of the dinosaur age and lurks in ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

It is shown, that forest tree height retrieval is possible with RMSE around 2.8 meters (R 2 =0.68). Secondly, correlations between ALOS PALSAR and tropical forest data are analysed, and AGB estimation ...

New research helps explaing why birds sing more at dawn. Scientists from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics and Project Dhvani in India finds that ...

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...