Toilet paper and biomass pellets are emblematic of the fight to save northern forests – and prevent some the planet’s more ...

The remoteness and small size of old-growth boreal trees should not make us forget their high ecological importance and the many threats they face. North America’s boreal forests have been ...

Oluwa Forest Reserve once protected an island of old growth forest in southwestern Nigerian ... Research shows that unlike ecosystems such as boreal forests that evolved hand-in-hand with fire ...

Research shows that the distribution of temperate hardwoods (sugar maple, red maple and yellow birch) could be shifting northward, which would have serious consequences for the boreal forest.

The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband. It acts as the lungs of the planet, producing much of ...

WASHINGTON— A coalition of environmental groups called on the U.S. Forest Service today to strengthen protections for the nation's mature and old-growth forests and trees. The move came in response to ...

A number of environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against federal land managers for a timber sale in old-growth forest north of Grants Pass. The Last Chance timber sale by ...