Palau protects marine wealth to pay for its future The banning of fishing in a newly created Pacific marine sanctuary will help stocks recover and attract high-end tourist dollars as …
The wild beauty of México By Kara Segedin To celebrate the launch of our BBC Earth channel across Latin America, our latest Earth Capture challenge is ‘Wild Mexico’. Join the …
Peru protects vast ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’ The new, 3.3 million-acre national park is larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined. It also preserves key habitat for thousands of native species …
Science Plan to Export Chimps Tests Law to Protect Species By JAMES GORMAN In June, the United States announced that all chimpanzees would be designated as endangered. Credit Pat Sullivan/Associated …
Lisbon’s biodiversity video A short documentary about Lisbon’s biodiversity and the work that LxCRAS has been developing as a wildlife recovery center. Nature and Wildlife in Portugal.
Sex, Death and Mushrooms NOV. 6, 2015 Highlights of a day’s fungus hunt in Tallman Mountain State Park in New York. Clockwise from top left: honey mushrooms; blewit; chicken mushroom; …
[embedplusvideo height=”283″ width=”650″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1SM8JQy” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Se12y9hSOM0?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=Se12y9hSOM0&width=650&height=283&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep8792″ /] Thinking Differently: The Story of Bottled Water In South Africa, we’re fortunate enough to have potable tap water, in our cities …
Science Saving a Rare Tree Worlds Away By RACHEL NUWER A small stand of Betula chichibuensis trees in the Chichibu Mountains in Japan, the last place where they survive in …
Earth’s tiniest creatures loom large in hyper-realistic photos By: Catie Leary A canopy chameleon (Furcifer willsii) traverses the narrow twig branches of a tree fern. (Photo: © Philippe Martin, 2015) …
Aechmea pittieri as a synonym of Aechmea bracteata Detail from Utley, J. F. Bromeliaceae. In: Flora Mesoamericana. 6: 151-2.1994 Translated by D. Butcher Aechmea bracteata (Swartz) Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. …