The course of Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015 when US fossil fuel giant Exxon struck oil. It discovered nearly 11 billion barrels in the deep water off the coast of this tiny country known for the ...

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

Most living things don’t cope well with having millions of volts put through them, but one tropical tree species appears to benefit from being struck by lightning.

In 2024, record-breaking blazes scorched millions of hectares of native vegetation in the Amazon Rainforest and other biodiversity-rich biomes. The measure, decreed by environment minister Marina ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

The biomes included tropical everwet biomes (hot and humid), seasonal tropical or temperate biomes (fluctuating conditions), and desert biomes (dry). Broadly, the researchers revealed that the ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the ...

It features four climate-controlled biomes housed within its iconic glass pyramids. The Tropical Pyramid is the ultimate winter escape, offering visitors a taste of lush rainforests filled with ...

In Africa, the earliest evidence of human rainforest habitation dated to 18,000 years ago. “Our results push back the earliest known presence of humans in tropical forests by more than twice the ...