Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...

2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge. In May ...

Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the journal Science. This study was conducted in the ...

In tropical mountains, trees are the dominant life form from sea level to above 4,000-m altitude under highly variable thermal conditons (range of mean annual temperatures: <8 to > 28°C). How ...

Remember the Lorax, the huffy, scruffy spokesman for the trees in the Dr. Seuss book of the same name? The Lorax spoke for the trees against the depredations of the Once-ler, who was bent on taking ...