The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

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 ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...

A new study led by an ecology and evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz finds that temperature changes due to climate ...

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is to develop guidance for sellers of food on social media after a survey found buying products in this way was more common than predicted. Research focused on ready ...

Such traits are not always a proxy for ecophysiological traits, which can directly determine community assembly and ecosystem function maintenance of a tropical rainforest across diverse environments ...