In the rainforest, much of life dwells in the tree canopy. But getting up there to study it isn’t easy. By the time a human ...

A Bolivian who claimed to have been missing in the Amazon rainforest alone for a month on Tuesday recounted eating insects and worms, collecting water in his boots and drinking his own urine to stay ...

Findings add to mounting evidence that recognizing and enforcing Indigenous Peoples’ land rights has widespread benefits – for the climate, nature and, now, health ...

A new study collected tens of thousands of insects from the rainforest canopy in the Brazilian Amazon and found that 60% of the specimens occur at a height of 8 meters (26 feet) and higher. Most of ...

The Amazon rainforest, spanning eight countries, is a vital ecosystem housing 10% of Earth's species and holding 20% of the ...

CONSERVATIONISTS GENERALLY disapprove of flooding species-rich habitats. But the law of unintended consequences works in mysterious ways. For it was just such a flood, in 1913, that created Barro ...

Researchers say they have discovered high diversity of Darwin wasps in a tropical rainforest in Brazil, wasps which were previously thought to thrive more in cooler habitats. Researchers say they have ...

Typical animals in the lowland rainforest of the Amazon: On the left, the palm-sized dung beetle Coprophanaeus lancifer, which appears to be sensitive to low temperatures. On the right, the Brazilian ...

National Geographic Explorer Leo Lanna has not spent more than a few days without the company of a praying mantis in the last seven years. His living room is a laboratory, housing 50 to 200 of the ...

Insects are crucial for the health of nature, whereas humans are not. And since insects are ‘dropping like flies’, does loss of insects mean nature is collapsing? That question of whether nature is ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of ...

Only our headlamps light up the jungle, which is full of mysterious chirps and other noises coming out of the darkness. Our guide Estuardo Lima directs us to veer into a stream. We squelch along in ...