This video shows a colorful tropical bird resting on a tree branch while holding a small insect in its beak deep within the ...

She popularised this idea in a bestseller of 2021, “Finding the Mother Tree”, and a series of TED Talks. Photograph: Panos ...

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A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...

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On Barro Colorado Island, a 15-square-kilometer patch of tropical forest in the middle of the Panama Canal, thunderstorms ...

Results showed that plants evolved an active adaptation mechanism under chronic high N addition: (i) increased root C exudation rate to stimulate microbial phosphatase activity and accelerated the ...

Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows that’s not always the case. Scientists long believed it would take more than a ...

Welcome to my office,” says Juan Thomas, as his plane soars over Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. The pilot for African Parks, a conservation NGO, puts on an incongruous playlist ...

Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...

Some tropical trees are reaching deeper for water as droughts intensify. In a new study, scientists saw surface fine root growth fall about 50 percent, while deeper roots increased during dry periods.