Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

Conservationists generally disapprove of flooding species-rich habitats ... has become the most intensively scrutinised scrap of tropical rainforest on Earth. The field station from which this ...

Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are keeping an eye on four tropical disturbances swirling in the Atlantic Basin, including a newly designated Invest 99L off the U.S. East ...

The first week of September has arrived, and with it comes more activity in the tropics, especially tropical waves with more potential for development. The National Hurricane Center is tracking ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. A tropical storm unleashed heavy rains across the northern Philippines over the weekend, triggering floods and landslides and prompting the closure of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — At the start of September, the peak month for tropical activity in the Atlantic Basin, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is currently watching three areas of ...

1998). Here, we utilized the 60-ha forest dynamic plot that was established in the primary tropical montane rainforest in Hainan, China to analyze the correlations between topography, species ...

On the freezing waves of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, researchers aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould dropped a trawling net into the water. They were hoping to catch zooplankton, but when ...

Tropical Storm Gilma is "barely a tropical storm" and is expected to dissipate near the Hawaiian island of Kauai this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. The NHC ...

Scientists found a “large”-headed animal in a burrow under some rocks in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wanchai, Rujirawan, Murdoch, Aksornneam, Promnun ...