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Chocolate has been a delicacy north of Mexico for a thousand years

Climate change killing forests in the western U.S.

Could engineering rainforests save the planet from global warming?

Secondary forest should become new conservation initiative

Symposium tackles big question: how many species will survive our generation

Shade-grown coffee preserves native tree diversity

Photos: Google Earth used to find new species

What allows rainforests to grow so wildly?

Tropical species face high extinction risk

Invasive ant interferes with gecko’s role in pollinating endangered plant

Rainforest biodiversity results from habitat specialization rather than chance

Breakthrough may enable reforestation using mahogany

Loss of wildlife is threatening biodiverse forests in northeastern India

Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds

New tree species discovered in Amazon biodiversity hotspot

Account of 18th century Amazon adventurer to be published for the first time

20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s tree species to go extinct

Global warming causes plants to move to higher elevations

Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro’s bamboo enigma

Global warming threatens California’s native plants

Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park

Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative

New discoveries about past forest changes may help predict future ones in a changing climate

Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar’s rainforests

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

Group files for ESA protection of 681 species in 12 states

Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity

Insect diversity in the tropics greater than previously believed

Biodiversity key to fighting climate change

Giant exploding palm tree discovered in Madagascar

Amazon plant diversity still a mystery

Orchids may have co-existed with dinosaurs

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