Italy planted Norway spruce across mountain pastures in the 1930s to restore the land and produce timber, but nearly a ...

British writer A.A. Milne, remembered most today as the creator of the Winnie-the-Pooh book series, was actually known primarily as a playwright until his great success with the beloved teddy bear.

Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 of the trees with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease in hopes that the survivors can eventually help build a genetically diverse and disease-resistant population.

Ancient inversion polymorphisms are locally adaptive in a widespread butterfly species Aboveground carbon (AGC) fluxes from deforestation and subsequent regrowth in tropical moist forest (TMF) are ...

How out of touch is it for Carl Mumpower to put forth Biltmore Forest as an example of a local community that does not have a homeless problem? We share your inclination to get the whole story. For ...

Forest ecosystems represent unique challenges to insect ecologists. Their complex three-dimensional structure complicates experimental designs to test insect effects on multiple ecosystem processes ...

Video game narratives don't always make sense. Sometimes, plot armor gets activated, leading to some wildly ridiculous moments. For many video game characters, the threat of death lends some tension ...

Taylor Rioux is a writer and critic based in Minnesota. He has been writing professionally about games since 2024, after starting the website JetsonPlaysGames, which covers both video games and ...

John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...

Dr. Peter Kennedy knows a lot about how trees and fungi work together in the forest ecosystem. Thanks to a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, he stands to learn a lot more, and share that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A team of researchers looked at changes in tree richness across the lowland and montane forests of the Andes and Amazon over the last four decades.

Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...