Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Postdoctoral research associate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Dave Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Ecology, Montana State ...
Changing precipitation patterns in the Neotropics, one of Earth's most biodiverse regions, could threaten two-thirds of the area's bird species by the year 2100 if climate change goes unchecked, ...
The Marshall Islands is a country in Oceania, consisting of 29 coral atolls with over 1,200 islands and islets. Being heavily influenced by the northeast trade wind belt, the country features a moist, ...
A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.
According to the definition by the National Geographic Society, the tropics are the regions that lie either in the latitude lines 23.5 degrees North of the Equator or 23.5 degrees South of the Equator ...
Scientists know comparatively little about the breeding seasons of tropical birds. This point is underscored by a new study ...
Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Life exists in every conceivable environment on Earth, from the peaks of towering mountains to the remote stretches of isolated islands, from sunlit surfaces to the darkest depths ...