Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic ...

Rita grew up in a small village in Uttarakhand with mountains forming the backbone of her childhood. In a recent call with ...

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), named after their characteristic “to-kay” calls, are among the largest geckos in the world and ...

Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate ...

Traffic noise isn’t just unpleasant; in the Galápagos Islands, it can also make songbirds aggressive, a recent study has ...

In many parts of Brazil, rivers may be losing water to the ground instead of gaining from it. A recent study found that ...

The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Company is ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in ...

Conservationists have launched a 20-year-long project to protect what is arguably Tanzania’s most biologically rich landscape ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...