To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to ...

Andrew Wight is an Australian science journalist based in Cali, Colombia. He’s covered science and STEM in the Global South since 2019, with his work also appearing in Science, Nature and New ...

I t will take momentous shifts to ensure a reasonably safe climate future. How can we find the wherewithal and endurance to ...

Just before fall hits its full stride, we encounter early bits of color — some to be celebrated, some to be admired, and some ...

A citizen science project gives gardeners the chance to preserve heirloom crops that could be resistant to disease, pests and ...

Droughts in the coming decades could be longer than projected by current climate models, a new study published Wednesday in Nature warns. The international team of scientists examined potential ...

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life,” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty ...

For some trees, that has meant evolving the capacity to resist droughts — to extract tremendous amounts of water from seemingly bone-dry soil — a bur oak, for example. Others have figured out ...

A team of international scientists alarmed by the loss of biodiversity across the world due to climate change has proposed a ...