An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, walking for miles through dark forests. Once they arrive at the fortress of the evil ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Ind. – After years of lawsuits and protests, the U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a wide-reaching management plan for the Hoosier National Forest that hopes to revitalize the ...

In Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, 3,600 trees will be cut for the Kashipur–Ramnagar four-lane project, affecting 13 hectares of ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

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 ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on the ground in the lush green woods. It’s marked by a thin aluminum tag. The ...

Contractors have chopped down trees and dug along stream beds as part of a project to reduce the flow of mud into the Broad River. But the project has critics, who say it’s too expensive and is ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

Engineered “trees” are moving from lab sketches to steel and sorbent in the ground, promising to pull carbon dioxide directly from the air at industrial scale. Instead of leaves and bark, these ...

A staggering one in three people in England lack access to nature-rich spaces within a short walk from their homes. Now, a growing movement is bringing nature back to cities across the UK. The ...

How trees fare under drought depends heavily on their past experiences. In some cases, adversity breeds resilience: Spruce trees that experience long-term droughts are more resistant to future ...

“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 ...