During the fall, trees change color and then lose their leaves. This is in preparation for the winter season. Because it gets so cold, the trees have adapted to the winter by going into a period of ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna ... in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north, the green ...

In addition it will cover the conservation of tropical rainforest from a regional and global perspective along with current and future threats to biodiversity through human activity. The course ...