Every year, vast stretches of land across every inhabited continent are swallowed by floodwaters. Rivers burst their banks, plains disappear under shallow lakes, and forests become mazes of submerged ...

Two marsupial species vanished from the fossil record 6,000 years ago, then turned up alive in a rainforest that local communities had been quietly protecting for generations.

A new study from Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institute, the Mpala Research Centre and many partner institutions has now documented the interconnection between the largest animals in the ...

In kelp forests elsewhere in the world, the removal of a single predator has led to ecosystem collapse. The Great African ...

Scientists use long-term monitoring of natural areas to help them understand environmental changes. Oklahoma surveyors are ...

I’ve recently been in the throes of helping to organize a BioBlitz for my local land trust, the Great Works Regional Land ...

Not the tropical kind you may be thinking of, but an ancient and precious woodland known as a temperate rainforest. A ...

In tropical forests, much of the biodiversity can be heard before it is seen. Birds call, insects buzz and frogs croak, creating complex soundscapes that reflect the presence of different species.

How does an ecosystem distribute its energy across body sizes? A new study suggests the answer depends on where you are—and how much humans have altered the landscape. Analyzing communities of birds ...

Washington state is home to four main temperate rainforests: Hoh, Quinault, Queets and Bogachiel. All four are located on the Olympic Peninsula, although rainforest ecosystems exist elsewhere across ...

Rainforests are Earth’s most biologically diverse ecosystems, housing over 50% of the world’s plant and animal species while covering less than 6% of the global land surface. These lush environments ...