The 1,600-acre inland lake not far from Lake Huron is home to Michigan’s largest bed of native wild rice, called manoomin in ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros ...

The conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way these ecosystems function, according to a new study published in Nature.

The second-largest intact tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Maya Region stretches tens of millions of acres through ...

Once ecosystems collapse, others replace them. Within 50 years of reaching a tipping point, the study shows the Amazon rainforest could become a savannah-type ecosystem made up of trees and grasses.

Belynda Alberte, a natural resources specialist with the Lake County Forest Preserves, said the Lake Plain formed thousands of years ago.

The famously verdant Amazon Rainforest can easily transform into a dry savannah in the future because various environmental ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler The forests of northern Europe provided Tim Christophersen with his first education. As a child in ...