Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees killed by drought and an outbreak of bark beetles in California's Tahoe National Forest in 2023. AP Photo/Godofredo A.

A common fungus that causes trees to rot may be exacerbating climate change by releasing more methane than expected.

Fuels reduction treatments are the Forest Service’s primary strategy for reducing high severity fire and increasing “resilience” in dry forests. These treatments typically involve cutting large ...

The Amazon is the world's largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet's longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features "flying rivers:" ...

Can our forests adapt to a hotter and drier future climate? Temperatures are predicted to rise up to 5°C compared to ...

In some dry forests, such as the Santa Fe National Forest, conservationists have been quite successful in either greatly reducing or eliminating commercial logging. However, replacing commercial ...

Tropical dry forests are critically endangered ecosystems that once covered vast areas of the planet but have been largely destroyed, with less than 8% of the original extent remaining in some regions ...

The 2013 floods gave state trees the water they needed to fight off the mountain pine beetle and other forest pests, but a dry 2024 restarted some pesky threats “The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” ...