As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing a rattlesnake plant successfully involves replicating its tropical origins with the right light, temperature, water, ...

In July, the competition’s six finalist teams were asked to survey 100 hectares of tropical rainforest near Manaus, Brazil, in 24 hours. Their task was to produce meaningful, real-time insights from ...

Five countries—Brazil, China, Colombia, Indonesia, and Mexico—account for 52 percent of the estimated potential regrowth.

Primary forest loss in Brazil increased by 25% between 2019 and 2020, while total tree loss in the tropics increased by 12%. The deforestation surge is not an isolated incident.