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

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

Researchers have identified an unknown family of microbes uniquely adapted to the waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions of tropical peatlands in Peru's northwestern Amazonian rainforest. The new research ...

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

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 ...

An international team of researchers has completed the most comprehensive survey ever of the predicted planetwide effects of drought and global ...

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 ...

These frogs inhabit Central and South America ... Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) with crest raised in the Amazon rainforest at Lake Sandoval, Peru, South America. Image by riverriver via ...

curid=55001819 The Amazon Rainforest, a vast and diverse ecosystem ... While not predators in the traditional sense, poison dart frogs carry enough toxin to dissuade any potential predator. Their ...