Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy ...

Though rainforests cover only 6 percent of the earth’s surface, it’s estimated they contain at least half of all the animal and plant species in the world. In such a warm, humid and biodiverse ...

To quantitatively assess animal adaptations to the changing climate, an international team of scientists led by Viktoriia Radchuk, an evolutionary ecologist at Leibniz Institute for Zoo and ...

Many of the animals that make their homes in those forests depend on—or at least can tolerate—the disturbance that comes from the blazes. Take the black-backed woodpecker .

The Amazon rainforest’s future is in peril. Biologists and environmental scientists have known for some time that government policies that oppress Indigenous rights and allow logging have ...