Researchers hiked into the rainforest of Esmeraldas Province several ... Santiago Ron told McClatchy News via email. “They live underground, have reduced eyes and are rarely seen.

This is due to its vast rainforest; trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. The country has protected its biodiversity where others have destroyed theirs, President Ali said ...

The paper’s senior authors include evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN); biophysicist Thomas Shimizu, a ...

The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands ...