Restoring dry forests in the Pacific Northwest, shaped by frequent low-intensity fire and widely spaced trees, often means thinning dense stands that accumulated after decades of fire suppression.

Political debates about the future of forests in Sweden and the EU are reaching an impasse. Producing more wood comes at the expense of nature and the storage of carbon within trees and soils.

Native soil fungi, in addition to native plants and trees, are both essential for restoring forests on islands like Palmyra ...

A start-up company says it has devised a way to dispose of debris from forest-thinning projects and reduce wildfire risk.

How would afforestation and restoration of large areas worldwide affect water-fluxes world wide? A new study has interesting answers. Impacts on precipitation reach far beyond country or even ...

HR 1904, introduced by Representative McInnis, passed the House and is now in debate on the Senate floor. It is a forest management bill that would either protect, or grossly mismanage, America's ...

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Restoring degraded forests to boost biodiversity, store carbon and reconnect fragmented habitats is a burgeoning area of tropical forest conservation. But uncertainty remains around the long-term ...

Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should lead to stronger action to safeguard the world’s forests, a senior UN official said on Friday, highlighting how these natural resources have helped to ...

A staff member from the Pesalat Reforestation Project on the island of Borneo replants trees in a peat-swamp forest area that was cleared by fires and logging. The areas are habitat for the orangutan, ...

"TTD has achieved 89.4 per cent forest cover in Tirumala while carrying out extensive conservation measures to protect forest wealth and restore native species in the Seshachalam Hills," said an ...