Clarence is at the Sydney Royal Botanic Garden to meet the expert in charge of conserving some of our threatened rainforest species. Dr Karen Sommerville is a Rainforest Conservation Scientist and ...

While not always taken with her subjects at first, artist Beverly Allen often ends up falling in love with them. She was not particularly enamoured with the little-known native guava before she began ...

Many who have never experienced being in the Amazon Rainforest, have the idea that it is a very inhospitable place, with dangers lurking around every bend in the river or trail and insects trying to ...

For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ecosystems. Now, a new study finds that there is a major mismatch between ...

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that rainforests contain perhaps thousands of plants and herbs with medicinal properties? — E. Wolfson, Brooklyn, N.Y. Tropical rainforests, which account for only 7 percent ...

With the aid of stable hydrogen isotopes in volcanic glass, an international research team, including Senckenberg geoscientist Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, has studied the uplift history of the Andes ...

Deep in Indonesia’s West Javan rainforest, plants like ferns, marigolds and flowering pink cosmos, while beautiful, have rarely been seen as having economic value. But a group of women working in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden I’ve been working through my bucket list this summer, and right near the top was ...

I’ve been working through my bucket list this summer, and right near the top was trekking through a tropical rainforest. In my mind, that always meant at least a plane ride's worth of travel—me in ...