A winding river cuts through dense rainforest in the Amazon region of Brazil. The valley stretches deep between ...

Parrots are vibrant, charismatic, and fascinating creatures. They have become popular pets, but they are a huge responsibility. A recent survey showed that bird ownership among Gen Z (people born in ...

This breathtaking waterfall flows down a steep jungle cliff surrounded by dense tropical vegetation. Multiple streams of water cascade into a dark natural pool below, creating a serene oasis deep ...

Brazil’s Cerrado wetlands store huge amounts of carbon deep in peaty soils, revealing a powerful but overlooked climate ally.

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests ...

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...

Students leapt out of their textbooks and across the hemisphere last winter. After a semester of studying and researching ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...

The uneven heating of the Earth is especially prominent as winter turns to spring, which is why March comes in like a lion with roaring winds.

MIRL stands for the Micro:bit Innovation and Research Lab. Its work will centre on the BBC micro:bit, 11 million of which have been distributed in the last decade. The pocket-sized programmable ...