Biodiversity Loss Climate change is playing a critical role in the rapid loss of biodiversity, threatening countless species ...

Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium will offer extended spring break hours later this month, along with new exhibits, interactive ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research ...

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will welcome tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni for Nat Geo Live: From Roots to ...

As a physician who has cared for many patients with this deadly disease in Africa, I marveled at how this one tree has saved ...

The findings push back the timing of ancient human rainforest occupation "by more than double," said archaeologist Eslem Ben ...

Acid rain in the United States is caused primarily by emissions from coal power plants, especially sulfur dioxide. Acid rain has decreased since restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions were enacted ...

It also faces declining seedling ... Research published in New Phytologist provides insights into why the invasive plant Japanese knotweed is so successful at outcompeting native plants.

Biosphere 2 later transitioned into a research and public education centre, where I studied how high temperatures affect plants in its experimental rainforest. Plants have survived climate shifts ...

Above-ground biomass (AGB) stored by the woody plants in each forest structural layer at the study sites. Only trees with a threshold of Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) ≥5 cm were included.

The Catalog of Plants in Brazil's Conservation Units has just received the list of plants in ... These figures show the importance of the RBCG for the conservation of the flora of the Atlantic ...

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