Some effects of Arizona's Dragon Bravo Fire are clear, but what's happened to wildlife may not be known until the flames die ...

Planting trees has long been touted as a major tool in the fight against climate change. And on the surface, that makes a lot ...

Clearing forests to plant crops makes good business sense in the short term for many farmers in tropical regions, where ...

A research team has uncovered significant differences in the soil seed bank density (SSBD) between planted and natural forests, with implications for forest restoration and climate adaptation.

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in ...

A research team led by scientists from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with international partners, analyzed satellite data to ...

New research reveals that thunderstorms - not just drought or heat - are a major cause of rising tree deaths in tropical ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Given climate change, there is an urgent need to conserve natural populations of forest trees and associated ecosystems. In contrast to a growing body of literature on genomic offsets and related ...

Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires are dividing conservation advocates over proposals that would sidetrack science and allow for less analysis under the country’s hallmark ...

Diversity, structure and ecology of a tree-shrub community established in a fire-excluded forest-grassland ecotone in southern Brazil Diversidade, estrutura e ecologia de uma comunidade ...