The Greensboro Science Center is bringing a new ecosystem to the Piedmont Triad. The center is building a rainforest — complete with animals not found in ecosystems in North America. Greensboro ...

When a science team based at Colorado Mesa University late last year beat about 300 other teams around the world to win the XPRIZE Rainforest competition and its $5 million winning prize, that wasn’t ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Termites -- infamous for their ability to destroy wood -- are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...

Colorado Mesa University’s resident pika expert, also recently part of a CMU-led rainforest science project that won an international competition, is participating in yet another global-scale event ...