Six moved to the next tree, another seemingly healthy ... is dead. A forest ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Allen has been based at Bandelier and taking in this view for nearly 30 ...

In crisis situations, forests become an economic and food lifeline, providing up to 20% of family income in rural areas, guaranteeing healthy diets. But these ecosystems are in danger. We lose 10 ...

While many communities are still trying to get back online, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is putting together ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

But when parks, wildlife refuges and other protected areas are well-managed, the forests in them are healthy. And when forests are healthy, the trees and other vegetation in them can absorb carbon ...

Yet, a management strategy focused only on deer, or only on invasive shrubs, results in little or no forest health improvement, according to research from Ohio, spanning more than 10 years.

The Trump administration wants more timber production out of America's national forests, which would make a significant ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion metric tons of CO2 annually—about a fifth of all human emissions—but their ...