The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

In terms of area, forest is the most important means of avalanche protection. It is also the most cost-effective and is naturally renewable. This insight hit home after the winter of 1951, when over 1 ...

The Elliott State Forest took a big step recently on its way to becoming the country’s largest research forest, by finding a site for its headquarters. Oregon lawmakers established the 82,000-acre ...

We’ve seen the devastation from wildfires here in northern Michigan — and across the country. With hot temperatures and dry conditions, it doesn’t take long for them to spready quickly. While ...

Marius Floriancic runs quickly along a narrow, well-trodden path, heading deeper and deeper into the forest. It is a cool, damp Thursday morning at the end of April; it rained the night before and ...

Prolonged drought, landscape-level bark beetle mortality and catastrophic wildfire have been increasing in frequency, extent and severity over the past few decades, and western forests will be ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, ...

On an overcast morning, in the midcoast town of Arrowsic, a group of researchers walked along an old Jeep trail in the Holt Research Forest, wearing hard hats that didn’t much protect against the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged ...

The fire, floods and massive debris flows of the past year in Glenwood Canyon could help answer an eons-old question: Where exactly does the underground source of water that feeds Hanging Lake begin?