As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

New research shows tropical forests can recover twice as fast after deforestation when their soils contain enough nitrogen.

Young tropical forests play a crucial role in slowing climate change. Growing trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, using ...

A hidden nutrient in the soil could double the speed at which tropical forests, and their climate benefits, come roaring back ...

Tropical forests still absorb vast amounts of carbon, but new evidence suggests that small deforestation clearings cause ...

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...

For many years, I lived in the Indian city of Chennai, where the summer temperatures can reach up to 44° C. With a population ...

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term "rescue strategy" is unlikely to save them from the impacts of climate ...

Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health.

Scientists at Utah State University have identified a simple metric that could be used to measure and predict wildfire ...

University of California Cooperative Extension's statewide forestry network provides research-based solutions to natural ...