Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to harvest over 5,000 acres of trees in the Tongass National Forest, ...

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species ...

In 2019, about 17 per cent of India’s land was officially classified as ‘wasteland’. But many of these are ecologically ...

Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests ...

A week ago, the media reported that the Ministry of Forestry estimated the total cost of rehabilitating Indonesia’s forests and critical lands at Rp153.78 trillion, or about US$9.2 billion, over nine ...

Blue carbon refers to organic carbon captured and stored by the marine and vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangrove ...

Prized for its beauty, teak is in short supply, forcing the yacht industry to look for alternatives.

Ancient sediments reveal how rapid warming collapsed Arctic forests in centuries, triggering fires, erosion, and long-lasting ...

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is ...