The Forest Service, DNRC and other agencies are working to thin out the forest to make it more defensible against wildfire to ...

Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, working with a colleague from ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

Scientists in the Asia and Pacific region, with support from the IAEA, have successfully identified sources of carbon stocked in mangrove soils — an important step toward improving the management and ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to global levels in nearly 100 countries.

Highly productive kelp forests are being touted as a natural climate solution, but do we know enough to count them as such?

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

In the quiet mountain villages of northern Portugal, centuries-old stone water tanks and irrigation channels may now be ...

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Thinning of forests, generally undertaken to reduce dangers from wildfire and restore the forest to a more natural state, ...