When Hurricane Sandy flooded streets in lower Manhattan in 2012, my parents on 55th Street barely felt a ripple beyond what they read in the news. The realities of how climate was affecting ...

Turks and Caicos is an archipelago of 40 islands, located in the Caribbean south of the Bahamas. It’s also a British Overseas ... including the indigenous rock iguana and gecko species – plus ...

Although the author, who has a distinguished background in marine biology, states that this book is not an ID guide, it would certainly aid in preparation and confirmation of the identification of the ...

Puerto Rico has 631 native tree species, and 20% are endemic to the islands ... tree because it’s native to the southeastern coast of North America, Mexico, the Bahamas, and Cuba. There are three ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...

It's a system shift. And forests are vulnerable the same way as every ecosystem is." Tree species themselves are also increasingly at risk. According to the 2024 update of the International Union ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia's priority species. The research highlights the urgent need ...

A shark has attacked two American tourists in the Bahamas, with one suffering “serious” injuries, according to local officials. The unidentified women were swimming together off Bimini Bay at ...