By Shanna Hanbury A new species of parrot snake lay undetected for nearly nine years in a scientific collection in Brazil. It ...

In the Cerrado, an expanding agricultural frontier and the world’s most biodiverse tropical savanna that covers a quarter of Brazil, the figure for unauthorized clearing was 51%. Brazilian law allows ...

This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous ...

By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace ... enough to survive in tougher environments. Tropical rainforests appeared to be the toughest ...

You may have seen lions, elephants and snakes in the zoo but if you wanted to see these incredible animals in their natural habitat you’d need to visit a tropical grassland, or a savanna.

The Kimberley, the northernmost region of Australia’s largest jurisdiction, Western Australia, is remote and difficult to ...

Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna eco-region of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais and the Federal District, equivalent to some ...