The taiga is the largest contiguous vegetation zone in the world. The birch plays a special role in this boreal coniferous ...

I JUST got back a little over a week ago from Canada with some members of my family. We spent a week in Canmore, Alberta, to ...

Across the western U.S., wildfires are becoming larger and more severe—and even trees that initially survive are dying in ...

Ards Forest Park covers 480 hectares (1,200 acres) and includes a variety of habitats, among them sand dunes, beaches, salt ...

Footage captured in 2024 of a small rabbit hopping about in front of a camera trap had scientists baffled. The juvenile, with gray-brown fur and a black tail, didn’t resemble any known species in the ...

Many bat species native to Germany, such as the Leisler's bat, are forest specialists. Leisler's bat at a treehole in an old ...

The Segezha Group timber holding (MOEX: SGZH) has transferred 35 thousand pine and spruce seedlings to the All-Russian Social movement in the field of environmental protection "Forest Volunteers" for ...

A government-funded campaign has begun spraying insecticides and biological agents on 240,000 acres of Maine's North Woods infested with spruce budworm, a voracious forest pest that killed millions of ...

California's diverse landscapes host a rich variety of snakes, most of which are nonvenomous and crucial for ecosystem ...

The future of the European forests is at risk due to our changing climate. To observe the effects of climate change, we often ...

Researchers in PSU's Global Environmental Change lab mapped annual changes in the extent of live tree cover up to three years ...

He explores why nothing grows on the ground of a coniferous forest and how some trees are adapted to cope with harsh conditions. He explains that both strategies are good - neither is better than ...