Nigeria’s Cross River state, famed for its gorillas, chimpanzees, drill monkeys and forest elephants, is also part of an ecological region known to harbor the greatest diversity of dragonflies and ...

Madagascar forest cannot fully recover naturally because invasive strawberry guava creates nutrient poor soil.

The Indiana Forest Alliance and a team of scientists spent years identifying the plants and animals in Indiana’s backcountry and have now documented those efforts in a new book. “Ecoblitz, an Indiana ...

An expedition to one of Earth’s most remote corners yielded a remarkable new species, but the discovery comes with an urgent ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

The Smithsonian Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) is a global network of scientists and forest research sites dedicated to advancing long-term study of the world's forests. Image credit: ...

New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations.