Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays ...

When you think of a South American rainforest, you probably don't imagine biting winds, heavy frosts and freezing ...

Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Argentina have discovered that some trees stop growing in the heat of summer—a ...

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

Imagine you’re in a forest. Do you feel soft pine needles underfoot? Or perhaps droplets of rain dripping down from the understory? Is it warm and wet, or cool and dry? What does it smell like? Every ...

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 ...

A years-long project to improve forest health, decrease fire risk and establish new pockets of skiable terrain on Bald Mountain is continuing this summer, with crews working in multiple areas.

Frequent bushfires threaten southeastern Australia's alpine ash forests. These trees require fifteen to twenty years to ...

A forest in Italy looked healthy, but scientists found it had lost over half its plant diversity after decades of monoculture ...

The death of 'Robin Hood' tree in Sherwood Forest leaves us with one less ancient sentinel. Here's a closer look, from the oldest tree, to the largest.

A new study finds that forests created through China's 66-billion-tree planting campaign are growing faster than natural forests.