At the Acadia Research Forest north of Fredericton, researchers from UNB are in the early stages of a project to assess how Atlantic Canada's dominant trees will adapt to climate change. What they ...
Forest managers are increasingly willing to use prescribed burns for conservation. Some say the practice does more harm than ...
Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is unclear if this trend will continue ...
The launch of a 25-year strategy for a community forest demonstrates a commitment to growing it for "decades to come", ...
With wispy tufts that drape trees like haunted-house cobwebs, old man’s beard lichen can be an unexpected sight in northern ...
As the gap between burned areas and replanting widens year after year, scientists see big challenges beyond where to put seedlings. Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over ...
Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...
Volunteers with the Green Seattle Partnership remove invasive plants from the forest at Seattle’s Carkeek Park. (Photo by Alex Brown/Stateline) This is your first of three free stories this month.
As the world warms, trees in such forests will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in John H. Tibbetts, Knowable Magazine On a brisk September morning, ...