The state of Chhattisgarh in India's tribal heartland has been the epicenter of a violent conflict for more than 30 years.

Around 44% of the region’s land area is covered by dense forests. These forests are home to vital plant ... One month earlier, in central Chhattisgarh’s Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve, a five-year-old ...

Prescribed burns tend to have a goal, such as clearing old, dry brush, the National Forest Service said. These fires can also potentially improve negative air quality, health and safety impacts of ...

Nearly 4,000 acres of "critical" property in the Great Balsam Mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway will be protected as forest and natural land under a new land conservation deal between a group ...

Conor Friedersdorf: How relevant is the debate about how to manage forests––whether to thin them out, for example––to fires like the ones in greater Los Angeles that began in dry sagebrush ...

President-elect Trump said Monday that California had the chance to “maintain their forests” amid the ongoing Los Angeles-area wildfires. “The problem is it’s so dry, it was always so dry ...

Only 18 of 119 forests within the world network of biosphere reserves perform better for all ecosystem functions than those outside, with increased functions correlated to greater forest cover ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees ... The agouti (Dasyprocta leporina), a large rodent native to Central and South America, is one of the species that ...