Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and ...

When properly managed, savannas like the Serengeti are capable of capturing at least as much carbon as tropical rainforests.

Roberto Carlos Conceição Arruda recalls the moment in 2002 when an ordinary morning routine took a harrowing turn. It was ...

Embrapa, the public agricultural research agency, is committed to combining livestock, crops, and trees to turn around a ...

Dr. John Clark, a research botanist with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, discovered four new species of airplants. They were ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Tackling monoculture and deforestation in the Amazon, Cuíca is using Brazilian chestnuts to make a plant-based milk that ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Half of the world's forests were destroyed during the 20th century, with three regions mainly affected: South America, West ...

From Nipah outbreaks in Southeast Asia to Monkey Fever in Western Ghats, the destruction of forests is accelerating the rise ...