Crouched over the leaf litter, where dry leaves accumulate on the forest floor, a researcher tries to capture a distinct ...

Federal officials are warning about the spread of the Asian needle ant in the Pacific Northwest, a stinging invasive species that can cause life-threatening allergic reactions and disrupt ecosystems.

This 4-day Amazon journey goes deep into Brazil’s rainforest, far beyond roads, cell service, and normal tourist routes. From ...

The worst-case scenarios that guide the work of climate scientists and feed into the major reports of the Intergovernmental ...

Researchers around the planet grew up watching documentaries hosted by the English broadcaster and naturalist, which sparked ...

Some animals eat leaves, fish or insects – and then there are the animals that turned into something way weirder. One bird ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Geoengineering could protect the Amazon rainforest from climate change, new research shows. Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) aims to artificially cool Earth by increasing the reflection of ...