In the late 1980s, something began to go wrong in places that were supposed to be safe. Protected cloud forests, buffered ...

What explains the vivid colors of the strawberry poison-dart frog? Piotr Naskrecki / Minden Pictures In the animal world as in fashion, bright color makes a bold statement. The vivid hues of the ...

In nature, size is often misleading. Some of the most powerful defences on Earth belong not to large predators, but to ...

Scientists studied puddle frogs to identify genetic variation hotspots and places where the climate crisis could wipe out populations too homogenous to adapt Even widespread species could be ...

In its bold outlines, many informed people understand that climate change is reducing tropical biodiversity and thereby degrading the functionality and ecoservices of tropical forests. But what are ...

The Tulsa Zoo is growing its family. Zookeepers for the rainforest exhibit are breeding its poison dart frogs. It is done in four stages. First, the frogs lay their eggs in petri dishes. Then, ...

In rainforests in Gabon, amphibians with larger toes relative to their body length are found higher in the forest canopy. Leptopelis boulengeri, commonly known as the Victoria Forest Tree Frog, is ...

At first glance, it might look like a tiny green jewel clinging to a leaf in the rainforest. But if you get closer — and look from just the right angle — you’ll notice something astonishing: you can ...

More than a decade ago in Crocker Range Park on the island of Borneo, researchers set up rows of plastic flags. The rows marked transects to help guide the researchers as they walked through the ...

When Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the town of Big Bear and nearby communities, some mountain dwellers were trapped by flash floods, debris flows and washed out roadways. But not local residents ...

CONSERVATIONISTS GENERALLY disapprove of flooding species-rich habitats. But the law of unintended consequences works in mysterious ways. For it was just such a flood, in 1913, that created Barro ...