The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

This photo provided by researchers shows a royal flycatcher bird in Las Cruces Biological Station in Coto Brus, Costa Rica in March 2018. Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade ...

The bloom of the purple orchid tree, native to south China, growing inside the Garfield Park Conservatory on the southside of Indianapolis on Jan. 13. The Conservatory contains more than 10,000 square ...

The tropical rainforest is the most biodiverse biome on Earth, housing an astonishing variety of species due to its unique climate, characterized by abundant rainfall and sunlight. Despite its ...

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Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising culprit: ordinary thunderstorms. These quick, fierce storms, powered by ...

A team led by Michigan Technological University researcher Jared Wolfe is the first to uncover why long-lived rainforest birds are declining in an untouched environment historically considered a ...

Bats are abundant and effective seed dispersers inside the forest, but what happens when a forest is fragmented and transformed into pasture? The landscape at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, originally ...

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.