Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...

Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Würzburg researchers have investigated how animals react to this.

Anyone conducting research in the tropical rainforest does not necessarily ... We didn't collect data on birds, reptiles and amphibians, but our subjective observations show that these animal ...

"We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction." Scientists share ominous warning after studying world's rainforests: 'A wake-up call' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest, but it's shrinking. Around 17% of the Amazon has been destroyed, due in large part to deforestation, per Time Magazine. If this rate of deforestation ...

Among these are lizards from the subfamily Celestinae, which prefer humid tropical forest habitats and are mostly only known from the Caribbean Islands. To shed light on the taxonomy of Celestinae ...

Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Microsoft will pay to restore parts of Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests in exchange for hundreds of m ...

Snake catchers are warning people not to pick up the reptiles after an uptick in call-outs in south-east Queensland. Natalie Whyte, who works with her husband Kurt out of Ipswich, west of ...

Two tropical lows sitting off WA's northern coast are expected to combine and intensify into a tropical cyclone over the weekend. The cyclone is unlikely to cross the WA coast, but could bring ...