New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other ...

The crowning jewel is Quito’s 17th-century Old Town, a heaving historical quarter so impeccably preserved that it was the first city in the world to be accorded UNESCO World Heritage Status. Arriving ...

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

The world’s hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson ...

Brazil has secured its place as the most biodiverse country on Earth, home to nearly 13% of all known animal and plant species in a new biodiversity ranking released by World Population Review. The ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest rainforest and river system, and the most biologically diverse place on earth. It covers roughly 40% of South America, spanning Brazil, Bolivia, Peru ...

The “lush conditions” of the temperate rainforest make it perfect for scare plants, lichens and fungi, as well as “remarkable” birds and mammals, according to Woodland Trust.

Comparatively few galls have been reported on ferns (e.g., Houard, 1933; Kraus et al., 1993; Balick et al., 1978; Maia and Santos, 2015), although ferns are the second largest group of vascular plants ...

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems to have been shut off from the rest of the world ...

Rising to a Global Challenge, Scientists Win Acclaim for Developing Ways to Measure Rainforest Biodiversity The Museu da Amazônia - MUSA, a patch of preserved rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, is 1.5 ...

The distinctive scent of a forest on a warm summer day is partly due to terpenes, a group of organic compounds found in tree resins and essential oils. Among these, isoprene is the most abundant ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...