Photographer Mac Stone documents ecological havens in the southeastern US, highlighting their photogenic beauty but also the ...

The Amazon is not just a space that can be observed but one that needs to be heard. As much as the “colours” of Latin America ...

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

Fringed polygala has a specialized pollination and seed dispersal strategy found in Massachusetts forests each spring.

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

SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey If deforestation ...

The invasive Asian needle ant, first seen in the U.S. in the 1930s, has spread across the Southeast and other states. A sting from this venomous ant can cause a severe allergic reaction, known as ...

In the dense undergrowth of tropical forests or the busy pathways of garden colonies, ants perform one of nature’s most remarkable engineering feats: they construct living bridges using nothing but ...

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 ...