The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient ...

Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available ...

Imagine you’re in a forest. Do you feel soft pine needles underfoot? Or perhaps droplets of rain dripping down from the understory? Is it warm and wet, or cool and dry? What does it smell like? Every ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

A district at the edge of the Mojave Desert is part of a network of California schools harvesting environmental, behavioral ...

A Latahar tree in Jhapa's Jalthal forest. All photos: LILA NATH SHARMA Deep inside Jhapa’s Jalthal forest, a group of us botanists were identifying the diversity of flora in the lowest-lying part of ...

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As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists around the world are searching for different ways to combat climate change. One area of research that’s become popular with both governments and ...

The woods I know best, love best, are made of Northern hardwoods, sugar maple and white ash, timber-tall; black and yellow birch, tiger-skinned; seedlings and saplings of blighted beech and striped ...

Whether someone is searching for a little Charlie Brown fir or majestic spruce, a good Christmas tree is the one that's ...

In what locals describe as a 'film-style' operation, scores of trees in Gaurighat Community Forest of Kaluwapur in ward 7 of Krishnapur Municipality were felled within little more than an hour on ...