A study of more than 88,000 U.S. forest plots linked greater tree diversity to stronger resistance and recovery, especially ...

Leonardo DiCaprio helped launch a fund for Sumatra's Leuser forest, where tigers, elephants, orangutans, and rhinos share a ...

Forests provide timber as well as many other ecosystem services. An important question is how measures to conserve biodiversity affect the profitability of forest operations focused on wood production ...

As wildfires surge through some of the most treasured landscapes in the nation, two new studies show that supercharged blazes ...

Kauri are among Aotearoa New Zealand's tallest and longest-lived trees—and their place in our cultural landscape looms ...

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...

Warming and drought pose a serious threat to tropical forest. Yet the extent of this threat is uncertain, given the lack of methods to evaluate the forest tree cover changes under ...

BENGALURU: The state government is considering introducing charges for ecosystem services in urban areas to raise money for ...

This experience sparked her interest in sustainable land management practices and has taken her around the world to explore ...

Researchers have published new findings on how leaf-eating insects affect forest ecosystems worldwide. Researchers are aware of how large herbivores cycle nutrients in forests. They know much less, ...

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 ...