Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

A new study suggests our brains store narratives by linking related events into tree-like structures, explaining how we ...

Lookout Fire burned most of a forest in Oregon. What's unfolding in the aftermath could inform the future of other forests ...

Fuel breaks, also known as fire guards, are wide breaks in the landscape. They can be created ahead of time (say, by bulldozing a stretch of land) so they might slow down, or even stop, wildfires ...

More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep ...

As extreme heat becomes more common, urban dwellers must relinquish their bias against daytime darkness and embrace the ...

In neighborhoods where tall buildings are banned, we need to plant more trees, which block the sun and cool the air. Few ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single ...

Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water ...

While casual visitors might not know it, Kawuneeche Valley on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park was once a ...

If you think you know everything about how animals respond to wild weather, think again. Recent findings have revealed a ...

Van Nuys Airport residents want a 15-foot sound wall to shield homes from noise and emissions, but airport officials are ...