Birds native to the tropical Andes, many of which cannot be found anywhere else, are threatened by increasing agricultural development in the region. A new study details how the resulting habitat loss ...

Rising global temperatures are triggering increased aggression in diverse animal species, from salamanders to monkeys. This ...

Questions: Extensive green roofs (EGRs) are novel ecosystems and essential tools in mitigating the negative effects of urbanization. However, the extent to which traditional community assembly ...

A new study conducted by a team of British and Brazilian scientists sheds light on the alarming consequence of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The study unveiled that Amazon deforestation is ...

Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this week in Rio de Janeiro's rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for the region's most emblematic ...

A new study finds that Afro-descendant communities in four Amazonian countries are linked to lands with high biodiversity and 29-55% less deforestation compared with protected and unprotected areas.

Successional processes ultimately determine and define carbon accumulations in forested ecosystems. Although primary succession on wholly new substrate occurs across the globe, secondary succession, ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed Freedom of Information requests late Tuesday with every region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The filings aim to get a fuller picture of ...