The conservation groups argue the mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened plants and animals, ...

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

A pair of leopards was recently seen prowling through a sprawling park in Thailand, video footage shows. The rare feline predators were picked up by a trail camera in Kaeng Krachan National Park, ...

Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece ...

Scientists have found evidence that a sudden event in ancient forests gave rise to humankind’s early ancestors. The indirect ...

After reading the letter about removal of trees in the National Forests I wanted to add a few important facts. I studied ...

For decades, the once-grand park at the heart of Levice has been a shadow of its former self. Now, with more than €1 million secured for its restoration, the town is set to bring it back to life.

Local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to challenge its approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains.

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, this ecological “unicorn” was spotted alive and well in the ...

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in Oregon, which lies in a volcanic crater and is fed by rain and snow, ...