forests

The fact that drought kills trees is well known. But a new study of nearly 29,000 trees at two research forests in North Carolina shows the effects can be far more long-lasting than experts once thought.

Current conditions in the West demonstrate that our US fire management system is struggling and approaching a state of crisis.

As California wildfires burn tree canopies and forest floors, plants commonly found in more southern areas of the western United States are moving in.

More than 12 million trees have died in California. A combination of drought, heat, and insects may be to blame.

As humankind colonised the far corners of our planet, we cleared large areas to harvest wood, make way for farmland, and build towns and cities.

A program in Brazil’s Amazonas helps farmers generate income while preserving the rainforest.

Artists and writers rally to save a 25-acre parcel of old forest in Langley B.C.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vetoed nine items on the provisional measure passed by the Congress to alter the new Forest Code.

The cultivation of palm oil, an item frequently seen in processed foods, personal care products, and soaps, is a main factor in the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest, said a new study from Stanford and Yale researchers.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range, home to Sequoia National Park, has enchanted humans for thousands of years. But it wasn’t until President Benjamin Harrison signed a bill authorizing the park in the fall of 1890, that the site and its massive, ancient trees were protected, and would be admired by visitors for years to come.

Libera’s forests are being divvied up and sold off to loggers, with logging rights to as much as a quarter of the country’s land being sold off via secret contracts with the government, says a new investigation by a U.K.-based watchdog.

The wildlife in protected tropical forests is increasingly threatened, a new study finds. Now, around the world ways are sought to stop this decline in biodiversity.