Now, they are calling on the world’s leaders to initiate protections so this ancient air-cleaning process can be maintained.

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

Not all fungi, plants or animals may be considered the earliest giants on earth. The tower of column of trunk-like structures ...