About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

Mangroves are trees or shrubs that grow along coastlines in tropical regions ... The carbon that is captured by our ocean and coastal ecosystems is known as blue carbon. Mangroves can store ...

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 ( top) versus two years later ( bottom ). The tree ...

Immersed in one of the world's most intensively studied high-biodiversity forests, I saw these questions transcend the human experience, unfolding in the complex balance of the tropical ecosystem.

Bhubaneswar: A dip in temperature, rain and cloudy skies have brought a temporary respite from forest fires in the past two days, after this year's early dry spell led to the breaking out of a lot ...

For decades, scientists believed cool temperate rainforests were fragile ecosystems easily damaged by disturbances like fires or logging. But new research from the University of Melbourne challenges ...