Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed ... But this unique and globally important biome ...

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate—it also noticeably improves the health of humans who ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered amber in Antarctica, a groundbreaking discovery that sheds light on the ...

This photo taken on Nov. 1, 2024 shows vines climbing on a tree at the Yanoda Rain Forest Cultural Tourism Zone in Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. Located at ...

Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 ... The two different biomes were recently hit by historic drought and the subsequent spread of wildfires.