XPRIZE, the world's leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity's grand challenges, announced the winners of its $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest comp ...

Understanding what triggers severe storms is not just a question for scientists but a matter of safety and preparedness for ...

Governments and advocacy groups are urgently pushing countries to address greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, especially livestock production.

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously details ...

Humans with the longest necks are found among women of the Padaung tribe in Myanmar, experts say, contrary to claims spread ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century ... "We want to register these archaeological sites to make them part of [our] heritage ...

Previously known only from historical maps, the city was discovered in the modern Brazilian state of Rondônia.

At the finals in the Brazilian Amazon, each team had 24 hours to deploy their technologies to ... According to an XPRIZE news release, Limelight Rainforest’s “sensor platform is designed to be ...

Tropical rainforests like the Amazon and Western Ghats, considered lungs of the planet ... coal mines of Gujarat deposited in ...

Research by IIT Kharagpur, Calcutta University, and the University of Western Ontario finds tropical rainforests, like those ...

The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full impact of climate change. Current estimates of the CO₂ from the atmosphere ...

"In Manaus, President Biden will visit the Amazon rainforest to engage with local, indigenous, and other leaders working to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem," the White House said in a ...