A voracious insect called the spruce budworm was ravaging Maine’s North Woods, killing mountainsides of balsam fir and red ...

Among the oaks, white, red and bur oak all stand tall as ecological heavyweights. Their acorns feed wildlife, their canopies ...

Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

On this Earth Day, the significance of forests for conservation, community benefits and human health has never been more ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to ...