Police revealed that Goose,​ the five-foot-long water monitor lizard who escaped a home in Webster, Massachusetts,​ two weeks ...

By Petro Kotzé The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying drought-stressed trees — is unfolding annually before the world’s eyes.

Archaeologists searching under a toppled tree in the Amazon discovered seven funerary urns buried beneath the roots. Of the seven urns—two larger than the others—skeletal remains included that of ...

A dissection of the roots of Cyathea rojasiana, a tree fern in the Panamanian rainforest. Vascular bundles develop rootlets at the base of the stem. James W. Dalling ...

However, due to deforestation and human development, the rainforest is slowly disappearing, turning it from a carbon sink into a carbon producer. However, the rise in climate change is creating a ...

Forests are vital ecosystems, and each individual tree plays an important role. Just take forests like the Amazon rainforest; in the past, it’s been considered a carbon sink, which has helped absorb ...