Deforestation of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil fell by about a third in the 12 months through July to the lowest rate in at least seven years. An estimated 9,600 square km (3,707 sq miles) of the world's largest rain forest were cleared in the year end
The Amazon rainforest may be more resistant to rising temperatures than has been believed, but researchers say it is unclear how the forest would respond to a long term drought.
India harbours 230 known species of amphibians, which include frogs and caecilians. The Western Ghats region is unique in amphibian diversity due to extraordinary endemism and special evolutionary relationships the amphibians of the area have with other b
For a number of years, reports have circulated that frog and toad populations have drastically decreased world wide. Why? Some explanations are apparent. With the destruction of tropical rain forests (a haven for tropical species), it is inevitable that t
FROGS are being put up for adoption after hitchhiking to Sydney in cases of tropical fruit and pot plants. Many of the "banana box frogs" found a new home on Friday night at a meeting of a frog fanciers group. Before they can be released to their new owne
A study suggests nearly all 162 land-breeding frog species living on Caribbean islands originated from a single frog species about 30- to 50-million years ago.
The newts of the Zagros Mountains, especially the genus Neurergus, are extremely sensitive to environmental change because they live in marginal conditions. It is likely that the rate at which newt species are declining in abundance has been underestimate
Zoologist Andrew Gray from Manchester Museum has rediscovered Isthomhyla rivularis in the remote forests of Costa Rica in Central America many years after it was last seen.
A study of frogs in Vermont finds that those living near farms are more than twice as likely as those living elsewhere to have deformities like missing legs. Yale University ecologist David Skelly said he decided to look at Vermont frogs because the state