Welcome to my office,” says Juan Thomas, as his plane soars over Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. The pilot for African Parks, a conservation NGO, puts on an incongruous playlist ...

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face deforestation. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Preventing illegal road building could ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through ...

The Avenue of the Baobabs preserves the remnant trees of an ancient tropical forest on Madagascar.

Latin America and Oceania emerge as the most exposed regions, with many nations lacking detection and containment capacity, ...

The fate of these ecosystems may hinge on events in the Pacific Ocean, in particular a natural climate cycle called the El ...

Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of ...

A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term ...

An avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada on Monday buried a snowmobiler in snow and killed him, authorities said. Rescuers ...