More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

New research examines the reasons for the decline of small mammals in Australia’s tropical savannas and identifies the most effective practical solutions.

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

Over the past 100,000 years, Australia and New Guinea's large animal communities have been disrupted by extinctions and ...

Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth ...

One of Australia’s big four banks warns the nation is vulnerable to food supply disruption, calling for action – diversified trade, stockpiles and securing key farm inputs – to avoid a ...

Twelve surface soil samples from each of four rainforest types on different soils of the humid, tropical lowlands of north Queensland were removed to germination-house conditions. Seed germination was ...

The wild prevails as paths twist and turn around curvy lakes, navigating from shade to bright sun. A walk takes visitors past ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by ...

The Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation will start charging admission fees to the Pana­‘ewa Rainforest Zoo and Gardens in August.

Papers from the Leeds Symposium on Tropical Rain Forest Ecology and Resource Management, held at Easter 1982 at the University of Leeds; sponsored by the British Ecological Society and the Leeds ...