Terracotta pots are not suitable for moisture-loving, humidity-dependent, or tropical plants. Experts explain why and recommend alternatives ...

African forest elephants feed on leaves ... By eating fast growing understory trees that capture less carbon, they thin out the rainforest undergrowth and allow larger trees that store more carbon to ...

Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest ... cocoa trees in other parts of the West African ...

The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus ... where it has developed long arms ideal for swinging between trees in the ...

Gabon has become the first African country to receive payment for reducing carbon emissions by protecting its rainforest ... says it will continue to harvest trees and increase the value of ...

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good ...

African forest elephants inhabit the dense tropical rainforests of west and central ... of more than three miles away from their parent trees, which allows these plants to colonize new areas ...

Trees absorb carbon emissions that contribute ... storage is not significantly less than the numbers for a tropical rainforest, which stores 320-400 tonnes per hectare. Grasslands can sometimes ...

If the seeds survive that, then more seed will be tested for survival after freezing. Many rainforest plants are so tall it’s hard to collect seed from them – the team uses long poles ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — KSN News had the pleasure of welcoming Chewie the Sloth to our noon news Wild Side segment on ...

Fires in grasslands burn one way; fires in rainforest another ... In fact, as with plants, some take advantage of the flames. They actively hunt along their perimeter searching for snakes ...