One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...

Learn how environment and biology influence hearing. Find out why women are more sensitive to sounds than men.

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

Building on a long history of successful collaboration, Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

Scientists have discovered a 22-million-year-old fossil tree in Ethiopia’s Mush Valley, revealing a lost tropical forest that ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Tropical forests are a crucial part of helping our planet maintain balance, but they are adapting too slowly to keep pace ...

Sustainable forest management is an important strategy for the conservation of tropical secondary forests. However, knowledge about their potential for timber production is scarce, especially in the ...