The U.S. Forest Service said that more than 90% of the land in the Conecuh National Forest would be available for oil and gas wells.

Boreal forests have experienced the fastest warming of any forested biome.

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree ...

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

Across the planet, forests are no longer the relatively stable backdrops they once seemed. From the Amazon to the Arctic, species are shuffling, tree mortality is spiking and fire seasons are ...

Old growth forests with just modest exposure to fire are now most at risk for severe wildfires across the region. That’s ...

A new study led by Jenna Morris, a recent doctoral graduate from the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, explored the factors that influenced the consequences of forest fires on wet ...

Ecological restoration is the process of reclaiming habitat and ecosystem functions by restoring the lands and waters on which plants and animals depend. Restoration is a corrective step that involves ...

The Forest Ecosystem Science degree is based on a vision that combines professional competency in forest management skills with an enhanced understanding of ecological sciences. Students interested in ...

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 research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has clarified how deposited ...