By Louise Hunt Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis ...

The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change is working with the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito to establish a scientific center for biodiversity research ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing ...

One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires ...

Charles Ver Straeten, curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, made an unexpected discovery while surveying ...

A pond with flowering water lilies and shady trees alongside can offer a restful break from everyday stress for anyone ...

Evolutionary ecology is a field within both ecology and evolution that examines how interactions between and within species evolve. It explicitly considers the evolutionary effects of competitors ...

Learn about what threatens the wet, layered forest and what you can do to help. 2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and ...

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Feb. 10, 2025 — It's 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation. New legislation has presented a mandate to establish an ambitious network of ...

By mimicking natural processes, people can manage forests for both commercial and ecological ends. That is the aim of ...