Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

If you (wisely) choose to purchase your sets at LEGO when there’s an event going on, your next window opens up between ...

Deep beneath the canopy of the largest rainforest in the world, there is a boiling river. The small tributary is […] ...

Researchers at the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found ...

The Museu da Amazônia - MUSA, a patch of preserved rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, is 1.5 hours by river away from the XPRIZE Rainforest competition site. Scientists studied its rich biodiversity to ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

The ability of plants to adjust to different environments ... To test this theory, we set up an experiment in the Daintree rainforest focusing on tropical trees between 15 and 30 meters tall.

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. Leticia Yawanawa has an ambitious plan ...

If you're like me, your indoor plants probably inspire a mix of joy and guilt. The guilt is because I feel sure they are root-bound by now — I'm scared to look. But there is good news.