Until a few decades ago, Borneo was covered in tropical forests. Then, in the early 1970s and the decades after, many forests were logged and cleared for palm oil plantations, until more than one ...

As world travelers look for new places to visit, one criterion increasingly stands out: meaningful connections with local ...

Similarly, the ghost palm, newly named by scientists this year ... was once a vast, lush tropical forest, but is now largely cleared for agriculture. Experts estimate that 70-97% of western ...

As soon as it gets cold and wintry outside, I act like a moth to a flame and instantly gravitate to greenhouses, garden ...

These primates may have sought to reach higher in foraging, see farther over tall grasses, reduce the exposure of their bodies to the searing tropical ... than on the palms or fingers, which ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences, for example, described 138 new animals, plants, and fungi including an endangered edible dahlia in Mexico, a pygmy pipehorse off ... region of the ...

Poppy, a pygmy hippo, was born at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9. Her name was selected by online voters.

Moo Deng ruled the internet in 2024, but a new baby pygmy hippo may be coming for the crown this new year. The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia announced the name of its very own baby pygmy ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and ...

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.