The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

In response, conservationists are working to safeguard biodiversity strongholds such as tropical ... such as West Africa's iconic Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana). How much rainforest is still ...

The Atlantic Forest used to blanket Maxakali territory. But as the forest disappears, the group faces intense heat.

When we planned our first family trip to Walt Disney World many years ago, I was looking forward to our first visit to Disney ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Developed by the University of Sheffield, the technology uses satellite ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that humans lived in rainforests approximately 150,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, suggesting that rainforests may have played a significant ...

With the world’s third largest tropical rainforests — after Brazil and ... this year that will compile and synchronize data and maps across commodities like palm oil, coffee, cocoa and rubber ...

Errol was a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean Friday ... Cyclones can strike eastern Africa, primarily Madagascar, as well as the western, northern and eastern coasts of Australia and ...

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