Dipteryx oleifera trees not only survive lightning strikes, they grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

By Ruth Kamnitzer High in the Andes, Polylepis trees, with their stunted gnarled trunks and twisted limbs, cling to steep mountain slopes, boulder fields and sheltered ravines. Growing at altitudes of ...

The creation of Hawaii’s first national forest is possible with a new study to be conducted by the U.S. Forest Service. It would examine land on Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii island.

Restoration in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is finding success on private lands, according to a newly published study.

Logging, wildfires and farming are causing mountain forests, habitat to 85 percent of the world’s birds, mammals and amphibians, to vanish at an alarming rate, according to a study published on Friday ...

Tropical forests, a vital home to animal life and slowing down global warming, continue to disappear at an alarming rate. But a new study found that there is hope for already destroyed forests to ...

A study shows that forests in 15 tropical countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities are associated with improved outcomes for carbon storage, ...

The US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station won't let forest ecologist Malcolm North talk about the study he authored in the journal Science. The agency even unsuccesfully requested that ...

Pity the flowering pear. Scranton’s best trees are burly. A report on Scranton’s urban forest to be released on Arbor Day shows that the city’s large, leafy trees store as much carbon as is produced ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission reported deer harvests of only 10 to 20 percent in study areas. “These are some of the lowest rates ever recorded during deer research in Pennsylvania,” said Duane ...

Scientists have been studying artificially heated plots in Harvard Forest for 26 years. Their research provides clues to changes ahead in a warmer world. Credit: Audrey Barker-Plotki/Marine Biological ...