Bonaire's dry forests show recovery after 15 years of reduced herbivore pressure. Fenced plots and widespread goat removal ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only ...

Planting trees sounds like the obvious way to rebuild a forest, but simply putting millions of trees into the ground doesn't ...

Beneath the forest floor, fungal partnerships help to determine which plants thrive above. The underground fungal networks of canopy trees shape the diversity of the herbaceous plants growing at ...

Tree stems in tropical forests recovering from logging produce carbon dioxide at a greater rate than those in unlogged forests, according to a new study from the University of Leicester. With fewer ...

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 ...

Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing less. A study by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL shows that increasing heat and ...

Amazon forest restoration cost the most and delivered the smallest gains, while protecting standing forest from fire and logging helped wildlife the most.

The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient ...

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 ...

Planting a tree begins with a seed. Planting a forest, it turns out, takes a whole lot more. Beyond water and soil, and time, there’s something else: It takes a lot of people to plant a forest, people ...