A University of Florida professor visited the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Feb. 5, to discuss the impact of habitat fragmentation and drought on tropical plants. Emilio Bruna spoke to the ...

Imagine Earth’s lungs being cut into small pieces like a Black Friday deal. That’s what’s happening to our planet’s ecological safety nets today. Every day, we lose 80,000 acres of rainforest, an area ...

Due to clear-cutting, the area of undisturbed rainforests is decreasing. At the edges of deforested areas, temperatures rise, and there is more light. Trees are able to adapt to changes in their ...

Papua New Guinea is a global hotspot of avian biodiversity, home to spectacular and behaviorally complex bird species that occur nowhere else on the planet. A new study shows that forest fragmentation ...

Deforestation is a well-known issue affecting biodiversity and carbon storage, but the fragmentation of forests is also a driving factor in the reduction of the world's biodiversity and carbon-storing ...

Like ferns and the tides, community conservation groups come and go. Many achieve their goal. Volunteers restore a local wetland or protect a patch of urban bush and then hang up the gardening gloves ...

Close up of a rare and endangered Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) in the highlands of Bale mountains, Ethiopia.© Giedriius/Shutterstock.com Habitat fragmentation can decrease biodiversity by up to 75% ...

DNA and data tools are helping conservationists better understand and protect endangered African forest elephants. The work matters because forest elephant protection is especially difficult: the ...