Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An old-growth forest of noble fir trees at Marys Peak in Oregon's Coast Range. Beverly Law, CC BY-ND Mature and old-growth forests ...

Tropical moist forests account for 70% of global living biomass. Deforestation and degradation—that is, the partial damage to tree stands—as well as the subsequent regeneration of forests therefore ...

New research documents how older trees support younger saplings, and offers a different way to think about logging and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Old-growth forests are lifeboats for biodiversity, reservoirs of clean water, and carbon-storage warehouses." Here, a road cuts ...

Over the last few decades, wildfires, farmers, and cattle ranchers have razed millions of acres of tropical forests across the planet. Much of that deforestation has occurred in three countries: ...

Forests occupy one third of the total land area of the Earth and hold around 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that nearly one third of the global population depends ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and ...

Vermont forests are under threat. This includes the plants and animals who call our forests home, as well as our communities that rely on healthy forests for clean drinking water, recreational ...

Join the Kaptagat Cycling Challenge for an 80-kilometre race that drives forest restoration and supports local livelihoods ...

Forests are an essential part of Earth's operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by ...