Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

(AP) — No Mow May encourages homeowners to stash the lawn mower each spring and let flowers and grass grow for pollinators ..

On the eighth annual “World Bee Day,” around 400,000 bees in urban rooftop hives in Cologne, Germany, were busy at work making honey. They seemed oblivious to the threats ...

LONDON (AP) — The Chelsea Flower Show bloomed with royals, celebrities and a pup or two at the gardening showcase highlight resilient landscapes and natural planting.

These lush ecosystems once covered a fifth of the country, but today it’s barely one per cent. An ambitious project could ...

Researchers identified a new poison dart frog species in the Amazon which has bright blue stripes on a darker body with ...

In one hectare of Amazon rainforest, we have more species of plants than ... And we start to walk in the forest, and looking for plants that have flowers and fruits. And sometimes they’re very high up ...

Many who have never experienced being in the Amazon ... numbers of plants and animals. It is, however, by no means the only, or for that matter the major reason why the Amazon Rainforest has ...

An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator magnet and a symbol of the tropics. A vibrant plant with strikingly colourful bracts, it thrives in rainforest ...