Study found that half of tropical mammals change their behavior based on moon phases. Some avoid moonlight, while others become more active.

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows that of all plants ...

HAIKOU /China/, October 16. /TASS/. Hainan authorities have launched a design competition to create the best ecological IP image of a rare gibbon species that only lives on the island's territory, the ...

Exploring the vast canopy gaps of the Congo rainforests. When you think of a "tropical rainforest," images of tightly packed ...

J. Leighton Reid received a $600,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development  Program award to research ...

Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of the world's diet originating from these lush, tropical areas. Here's a ...

This latest sustainability commitment of the bank entails funding the restoration of 15 acres of this ecologically important lowland tropical ... The Yagirala rainforest in Walallawita comprises ...

A tropical or subtropical depression or storm is likely to form late this weekend or early next week, depending on environmental conditions, according to the latest advisory from the National ...

Tropical Storm Milton has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center. Milton is forecast to strengthen and could become a hurricane as it moves over the Gulf and ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have described a previously unknown mechanism in the perception of light and heat in plants. The results ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Disorganized storms in the Gulf of Mexico may become a tropical or subtropical depression over the next week, bringing downpours to the Bay Area, according to the National Hurricane ...

A tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico could bring a lot of rain to the Florida peninsula, forecasters say. And now there’s a high chance that it could become a tropical or subtropical ...