The world's forests are changing silently, and scientists are warning about the loss of key tree species and lack of biodiversity.

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...

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.

How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend?

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As wildfires like the ones that blanketed the northeastern U.S. in smoke earlier this month become more frequent and more powerful ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and ...

A recent study indicates that vertically designed “solar trees” can generate electricity on par with conventional solar farms while reducing associated forest loss by up to 99 percent. “Through 3D ...

Experts predict 'catastrophic ecosystem collapse' of UK forests within the next 50 years if action not taken. Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, ...

Remarkable research has unlocked new understanding of the mysterious ways trees communicate and share knowledge with each other – and much like in many animal species, the wisdom of age plays a vital ...

Aspen trees in fall in adjacent Custer Gallatin National Forest. (Diane Renkin/National Park Service via Courthouse News) (CN) — Conservationists joined forces in Montana on Wednesday in challenging a ...

A Latahar tree in Jhapa's Jalthal forest. All photos: LILA NATH SHARMA Deep inside Jhapa’s Jalthal forest, a group of us botanists were identifying the diversity of flora in the lowest-lying part of ...