An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve ...

A roadside stop to photograph rock formations for a biology lesson unexpectedly turns into a powerful real-world example of ...

Terrestrial carbon sinks grew by 30% from 1992 to 2019, with most carbon stored in nonliving pools, not forests, prompting a ...

The International Day of Forests is observed annually on March 21 to raise awareness about the importance of forests and ...

Because of their importance to life on Earth, forests have gained the nickname "lungs of the planet" for their role in ...

Recent research reveals a 30 % increase in terrestrial carbon sequestration, with nonliving pools storing most gains, ...

Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems are increasing, mitigating around 30% of the CO2 ...

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders ...

An international study, with the participation of INRAE and the CEA, has discovered that the majority of terrestrial carbon ...

The animal “raised questions,” and researchers decided to take a closer look at the frog’s genetics — then discovered a new ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...