NEW YORK -- It's a tough time to be a tree. For this Earth Day, National Geographic has focused its lens on humanity's relationship with the world's 3 trillion trees and 10 billion acres of forest, ...

Small forests can save birds, especially when surrounding landscapes include nearby trees, according to a new study.

Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available aerial imagery using methods developed by researchers from the University ...

Daniel Kim/Seattle Times via AP On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There ...

INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE TEAM. THE 160,000 ACRES OF BERNHEIM FOREST AND ARBORETUM ARE HOME TO COUNTLESS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, AND AS OUR SAM CARTER DISCOVERED, THE FOREST NOW HAS AN EXPANDED ...

Hemlock woolly adelgid is closing in on a private Adirondack forest where researchers are racing to protect the trees.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering with Michael Coe, a senior scientist and tropical forest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pexels The climate plans that countries have submitted to the U.N. will do too little to protect the world’s forests and their ...

Bangladesh is making a list of sacred forests, aged trees and other socially important flora in a bid to strengthen forest conservation. The need for conservation of these fragmented forest patches ...

Forests are more than trees. They are life-support systems—supplying water, providing food and livelihoods, storing carbon, and safeguarding biodiversity. Yet deforestation and forest degradation ...