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

Some tropical forests show surprising resilience as temperatures rise. Scientists are finding that some percentage of tropical forests may hold up under global warming—if they’re not cut down.

Discover a dazzling world of color through 150 stunningly vibrant birds from around the globe. These feathered wonders showcase an incredible spectrum—from fiery reds and electric blues to radiant ...

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

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 ...

Abstract: In this study, a set of bistatic interferometric SAR images acquired by the TanDEM-X mission are used along with fully polarimetric ALOS PALSAR data for the assessment of tropical forest ...

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 ...

In this study, we conducted an inventory of plants and terrestrial vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) in three fragments of cloud forest in southwestern Mexico. Field work was ...

Whatever the evolutionary advantage, animals' color is inextricably intertwined with their environment, be it the bright birds of the rainforest or the dull silver fish of the deep sea. And the ...

A tropical bird was spotted this week south of Victoria, thousands of kilometres from its typical range between northern Mexico and Peru. The juvenile “magnificent frigatebird” was ...