In 1990, the Clean Air Act was updated by Congress to eliminate acid rain by reducing power plant pollution. Unfortunately, ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

Two seas, two species of mischievous Panama monkeys, two types of lazy sloths, two ferry transits across the Panama Canal, ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

The court also ruled that Ecuador must honor the results of a 2023 referendum, in which voters chose to stop oil operations ...

Panama's government has approved safe passage for former President Ricardo Martinelli to travel to Nicaragua, where he has been granted asylum, a top Panamanian official said in a press conference on ...

For those with an appetite for discovery, the Caribbean and the seven countries of Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx oleifera trees often benefit from lightning strikes that ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera faced a fairly friendly audience as he spoke to Senators at his ...