Ecological restoration projects actively involving indigenous peoples and local communities are more successful. 

Actor James Franco looks sort of happy as he records a video diary in the movie “127 Hours.” It’s not until the camera zooms out, revealing his arm is crushed under a boulder, that it becomes clear his goofy smile belies his agony.

A new study released this month reveals interactions such as predation and competition between plant and animal species are much stronger in tropical regions and lower elevations.

When you look at a Tropical Cyclone Oma from space, you’ll get a sense of its massive size.

With average precipitation of 35 inches per four-month season over an area encompassing most of the Indian subcontinent, the South Asia summer monsoon is intense, only partly understood, and notoriously difficult to predict.

Carbon dioxide is a troublemaker.

The good thing about the short Antarctic summer is it’s a lot like a Midwest winter.

The viceroy butterfly is a mimic, modeling its orange-and-black colors after the queen butterfly, a bug that tastes so disgusting predators have learned not to eat it or anything that looks like it, including viceroys. 

The Sahel is a semi-arid region of transition in Africa between the Sahara and the Sudanian Savanna, which is extremely sensitive to the precipitation change. 

Severe weather and environmental disturbances, such as cyclones or thermal coral bleaching, affect specific areas of coral reefs differently, new research has shown.