When the Giants Start to Fail Some of the largest living things on Earth are starting to fail. We are seeing it happen in ...

Ecological restoration is the process of reclaiming habitat and ecosystem functions by restoring the lands and waters on which plants and animals depend. Restoration is a corrective step that involves ...

There is something almost hypnotic about watching a forest burn. The scale of it. The violence. And yet, when the smoke ...

Restoring forests, wetlands and peatlands could help defend national borders as well as tackle climate change, according to ...

Forest ecosystems stand as indispensable regulators of the planet’s climate, actively influencing atmospheric greenhouse gas ...

In the valley that the Mississippi River carves through the heart of America, one vital habitat is facing a multitude of threats. The river's floodplain forests grow in rich, complex soils; provide ...

The primary reason we took the U.S. Forest Service to court — and won — over the Round Star Logging Project is because lynx critical habitat is the worst place for clearcuts, and the surest way to ...

Riparian restoration is essential to recovering the salmon populations that are essential to supporting tribal treaty harvest rights, economies and culture.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking through scenarios allows land managers to prepare for many potential outcomes. Benjamin Slyngstad via USGS In Sequoia and ...

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...

Though spatially distinct, the Santa Barbara Channel’s subtidal kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), the foundation species of rocky reefs, ...