They found that, even with improvements in agricultural productivity (due to technological improvements like new seed ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

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 ...

Instead, high temperatures seem to harm plants indirectly, by raising VPD and thus the dryness of the air. Plant leaves take in carbon dioxide via mouth-like leaf cells called stomata, but those ...

Brazil has secured its place as the most biodiverse country on Earth, home to nearly 13% of all known animal and plant ...

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record ...

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 ...

Beautiful UK rainforest with waterfall and bustling wildlife is a 'must-visit' A woman shared her experience exploring a unique outdoor place in the UK which is "incredibly rare".

The gall of C. phalerata represents a new record on tree ferns and the third for genus, previously recorded in Cyathea squamata (Klotzsch) Domin (Houard, 1933) and Cyathea sp. (Maia et al., 2008).We ...

In the 1950s, Brazil found a use for it. The nation, leaping into the global economy, decided to construct a new capital city, a monument to Brazilian progress, in the center of the country.

Altogether, the Map of Life Rapid Assessment team identified 5,000 individual animals and plants from 225 species. “They said, ‘Go!’ and then you fly your drones for 24 hours, and then you have 48 ...