15-06-08 Following nearly 5 years of exploration in mountainous areas of the southern Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, a team of researchers has uncovered seven new species of a highly miniaturized, brightly colored frog genus known as Brachycephalus. Each spe...

15-02-25 Midnight Niall Campbell My heart had been repeating oh heart, poor heart all evening. And all because I'd held my child, oh heart, and found that age was in my cup now; poor heart, it bare knew anything but the life of a young axman in the forest, w...

15-02-25 Story Frances Leviston Under what tree, in what part of the forest, beside which branch of the leaf-obstructed stream, in sun or in rain, concreted into what foundation, supporting whose house, deaf to how many dinner parties, subjected to how many...

14-10-17 Change in disturbance regimes -- rather than a change in climate -- is largely responsible for altering the composition of Eastern forests, according to a researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. Forests in the Eastern United Sta...

14-07-23 I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious green glade, where I began to cut wood. I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ri...

14-04-17 The proportion of land used to cultivate shade grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20 percent globally since 1996, according to a new study by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin an...

14-03-19 In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the King's castl...

14-03-19 Hard by a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife, who had an only child, a little girl three years old. They were so poor, however, that they no longer had daily bread, and did not know how to get food for her. One morning the wood-cutter we...

14-03-13 Perched high on the bluffs（绝壁） of the big river valleys in the Midwest are some of the last remnants of never-farmed prairie grasslands. These patches, edged by forest, are slowly being taken over by shrubs. A recent University of Illinois study...

14-02-24 There was once a wonderful musician, who went quite alone through a forest and thought of all manner of things, and when nothing was left for him to think about, he said to himself, Time is beginning to pass heavily with me here in the forest, I wil...