The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

My extended family has an abiding passion for St. John and Virgin Islands National Park.  Could my first trip possibly live ...

Introduction Biodiversity, the abundance of life on the planet, is crucial for the stability, resilience, and sustainability ...

regulate climate and provide food and habitat for wildlife.” Providing a new perspective on the functional similarities and differences across tropical forest canopies, the study enables more ...

To mitigate human-animal conflicts in the State, the Forest department will ensure food and water availability to wild animals inside forests, said Chief Wildlife Warden Pramod G. Krishnan.

However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest loss than the original roads themselves. In all three regions, secondary roads ...

China's forest food production exceeded 200 million metric tons last year, becoming the third most important agricultural product after grain and vegetables, the National Forestry and Grassland ...

A forest with high tree-species diversity is better at buffering heat peaks in summer and cold peaks in winter than a forest ...

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

A new study reports that some tropical tree species are not only able to tolerate lightning strikes, but benefit from them. The ... Refining Siberia's Land Cover Data: A Leap Forward for Climate ...

Other phenomena, such as forest fires, droughts, snowstorms and tropical storms can result from a combination of complex factors. "This wildfire has once again exposed the harsh reality of a ...