Microplastics silently threaten even untouched Amazon wilderness. The post Microplastics Invade the Amazon Rainforest, ...

A Fox News investigation found that Kerry's family jet had released more than 300 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the ...

With successive records of high temperatures around the world and an increase in extreme weather events, the ecological restoration of degraded areas and the new markets associated with it, such as ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, covering an area roughly the size of Australia. And yet it and other large ecosystems could be gone within our lifetime. In a new paper published ...

Rainforests are among the most complex and diverse ecosystems in the world. From their lush green canopies to shadowy forest floors, these important environments are bursting with unique wildlife.

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

The Amazon rainforest could turn into a grassy savannah within 49 years of reaching an ecological tipping point, scientists have warned. A team of researchers found that once they start collapsing, ...

Note to editors: Photos and other associated press materials can be found via Dropbox here (password: amazon). Smithsonian scientists and their collaborators have found new evidence that prehistoric ...