The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, ...

S tretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and ...

"To effectively protect nature, you first need to know what's there." Researchers stunned by rare discovery deep in the Amazon rainforest: 'I almost couldn't believe it' first appeared on The Cool ...

Madagascar, a jewel of biodiversity, appears like a failing state. Since breaking up with France in 1960, Madagascar’s been ...

The Brachycephalus genus, commonly known as flea-toads or pumpkin toadlets, consists of small, endemic frogs found primarily in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil. These frogs are notable for their ...

Come nightfall, the varied, yet distinct, calls of bands of frogs can be heard domina­ting all other sounds. They have got a “lagniappe” of water in a period that should be our dry season.

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of ...

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to global levels in nearly 100 countries. In the summer of 2018, I traveled to ...

The fires in the Amazon region in 2019 were unprecedented in their destruction. Thousands of fires had burned more than 7,600 square kilometres by October that year. In 2020, things ...