Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking through scenarios allows land managers to prepare for many potential outcomes. Benjamin Slyngstad via USGS In Sequoia and ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

New research documents how older trees support younger saplings, and offers a different way to think about logging and ...

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts A version of this piece was originally published on Aeon as Why we need to think again about ...

Forests are among the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, hosting a myriad of tree, shrub, microbial and faunal species that interact to sustain a range of ecosystem processes. Biodiversity in ...

Forest ecosystems are among the most structurally complex and biodiverse habitats on Earth, spanning tropical rainforests to boreal taiga. They perform critical ecosystem functions—photosynthetic ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: With climate change, the threat of wildfires, and human encroachment among other things, our trees and forests are in desperate need of guardians. From ...

In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees that have persisted through rain and shine for thousands of years are now facing multiple threats triggered by a changing climate.