After wildfires destroyed 95% of this California tribe's forests, members uncovered 1,200 ancestral sites

After devastating fires turned their forest into a moonscape, members of the Konkow Valley Band of Maidu found evidence of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Forests Are Getting Shorter and Younger All Over the World

The world’s forests are losing their big, old trees, rendering those forests shorter and younger on average, according to new research. These old growth trees, which provide vital habitat for wildlife ...

Why natural forests survive heat waves better than planted forests

When a record-breaking drought and heat wave swept across China's Yangtze River Basin in 2022, forests across the region ...
Forbes

Forests Are Becoming The Backbone Of The Global Economy

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Beyond timber, forests sustain entire economies as roughly 5.8 billion people depend on ...

Tropical forests can switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources during El Niño

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

China's planted forests survived a 2022 heat wave worse at first, but then bounced back faster than natural forests in the Yangtze River Basin

China's Yangtze River Basin forests faced extreme drought and heat waves in 2022. Natural forests showed better resistance ...
Opinion

Commercial forests and biodiversity claims

Letters: Paul Brannen extols the benefits of commercial forestry, while Dr Andrew Cameron warns of Britain ‘offshoring’ its timbers supplies, and Jane Gifford calls on the Scottish government to revie ...

How Washington’s forests filter water — and how your yard can, too

Washington’s private forest landowners have spent 25 years removing barriers that blocked fish from their spawning grounds.