Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate ...

Rita grew up in a small village in Uttarakhand with mountains forming the backbone of her childhood. In a recent call with ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic ...

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), named after their characteristic “to-kay” calls, are among the largest geckos in the world and ...

Microplastics are a growing ecological and human health crisis: Scientist have found the tiny plastic particles everywhere ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

Ofelia Opocué’s life has been shaped by loss, she says. Twenty-three years ago, the FARC gave her family an ultimatum: leave ...

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

Traffic noise isn’t just unpleasant; in the Galápagos Islands, it can also make songbirds aggressive, a recent study has ...

In many parts of Brazil, rivers may be losing water to the ground instead of gaining from it. A recent study found that ...