Some 14,800 wildfires have burned 1,105 square miles so far this year — well above the 10-year average.

New research from UVM suggests that fallen logs in streams are unsung climate heroes, locking up heretofore-unrecognized ...

According to the results, China has a staggering 142.6 billion trees, or around 100 trees per person. Of course, urban areas and the high Himalayas have far fewer trees.

The Hoh Rainforest contains one of the most peaceful spots in the United States, marked as ‘One Square Inch of Silence’ in ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” ...

Edward Faison, an ecologist, stood quietly in a patch of forest that stretched for miles in all directions. Above him, the ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

Trees that have "fast growing" traits turn out to grow more slowly in the wild than their conservative relatives, scientists ...

Terrestrial carbon sinks grew by 30% from 1992 to 2019, with most carbon stored in nonliving pools, not forests, prompting a ...

The wildfires that used to burn each summer in the woods above the Spanish village of Barro have diminished to almost none ...