Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Matt Kirwan walks through Maryland’s Blackwater National Refuge, his rubber boots begin to squish. With each step the land ...

BOISE -- The man who oversees the U.S. Forest Service was in Boise Thursday to announce a new project aimed at reducing the damage caused by wildfire in one of Idaho's national forests. But, ...

Forest composition, ground cover and topography are the best predictors of forest fire severity in the Western US, according to physical geographers who also see that the long history of fire ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. I am one of the small environmental groups that tried to stop the Bozeman Watershed Project ...

Forest edges influence more than half of the world’s forests and contribute to worldwide declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, predicting these declines is challenging in ...

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to deforestation and forest degradation. But nature ...

In Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, 9 community forestry concessions have been managing over 350,000 hectares of forest for more than 15 years. The communities aim to manage the concessions ...

The loss of our forests is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. Forests are key to curbing carbon ...

Forests have arrived as a natural climate solution. Look no further than COP26, the latest IPCC Report or President Biden’s Earth Day Executive Order and you will see serious attention to the power of ...

The best way of managing trees and forests for climate change and accounting for contributions of forests and forestry activities in carbon budgets remains hotly contested. Forests can either take up ...