Analysis - On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest - a place where the density of trees forms an almost impenetrable mass of green.

Humanity achieved a fateful milestone last year. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has officially ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change predicts that 36% of anurans’ habitats worldwide will soon be threatened by a combination of rising temperatures and water scarcity. Brazil has the greatest ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...

The location also highlights the role that nature has to play in the climate crisis. The rainforest is a massive ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...

Explore how climate change threatens 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe, from melting glaciers and rising sea levels to increasing wildfires and desertification, highlighting the urgent ...

By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...

Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah ...

Failure to find the oldest dinosaur fossils may be because the areas in which they first evolved are now generally hard to explore like the Amazon rainforest or the Sahara desert, closer to the ...