B. Morgan, Chico, California They may look lush and green, but some forests are already on borrowed time. These so-called ...

Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline ...

The land features more than 8 miles of shoreline, including part of the headwaters of the Rainy River watershed, which flows ...

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. — There’s something eerie about this forest in the southern Sierra Nevada. Tangles of bony branches obscure the ground. Dead trees stand gray and bristly. An aura of doom hangs ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, in a ...

State leaders have long understood Northern California's wildfire crisis and are investing resources to solve it. But in ...

A warming climate has left a fifth of the conifer forests that blanket California's Sierra Nevada stranded in habitats that no longer suit them, according to a study published last week by researchers ...

A forest community not typically recognized in most descriptions of Adirondack vegetation is the “upper slope hardwood-conifer forest”. This community is very similar to the mixedwood type except red ...

Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic ...

We examine spatial patterns of conifer tree mortality and their changes over time for the montane mixed-conifer forests of San Diego County. These forest areas have recently experienced extensive tree ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...