GLORIA DO GOITA, Brazil — They live a continent apart, but Ana Cristina Roldao and Yung Chin are transported to the same realms of rapture when they contemplate the stalwart trunk and spreading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A frog is seen diving headfirst into a flower's bulb to access nectar. A frog is seen diving headfirst into a flower's bulb to ...

They're invasives, crowding native plants out of over 700,000 acres of the Florida landscape. Some pretty out-there remedies for getting rid of them (including bugs and goats) are being tried. Who ...

After nearly 200 years without a confirmed sighting, a rare Brazilian tree species called the Pernambuco holly has been found in northeastern Brazil. The team located four trees, two male and two ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Scientists with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences released insects known as Pseudophilothrips ichini, or thrips, into Pasco Palms Preserve ...

We all know the usual pollinating suspects like bees and butterflies. However, one adorable little Brazilian frog might be getting into the pollination game. The Izecksohn’s Brazilian tree frog was ...

Port Aransas (KIII News) — An effort to control the invasive tree that is common in this area is underway. On Monday a group of volunteers working under the Texas Gulf Region Cooperative weed ...

Q: I have just read an article about the Brazilian pepper tree and wanted to know if it is illegal to have one in my garden. My neighbor has been complaining about it and wanted to know if I am ...

Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway's embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking "refugee" status for it in a symbolic protest against the destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

While most frogs eat a diet rich in insects, one species in Brazil has its own method of nourishment: dunking itself headfirst into a flower's bulb to slurp up its sweet nectar. When the frog comes up ...