Connecticut’s forests were largely replanted 150 to 250 years ago. “A large majority of it is what we would refer to ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants ...

There are quite a few things that pose a threat to the ecosystem, and deforestation might be one of the worst offenders. Here ...

New research reveals that thunderstorms - not just drought or heat - are a major cause of rising tree deaths in tropical ...

Binh’s spiny frog, or Quasipaa binhi, was discovered in the forests of central Vietnam. Known for its robust body and ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

Time GPU Tree Generation' shifts the procedural creation and rendering of trees in a 3D environment to the GPU with ...

Charles LaCalle, a resident of Santa Fe’s South Capitol neighborhood, labored hard hoping to rescue the fir tree in his front yard from an aggressive outbreak of the Douglas-fir tussock moth ...

How windstorms shape forests. A mature tree will experience many weather events during its lifetime. Windstorms force trees to sway and bump their neighbors, which causes crown abrasion – damage ...

Prior to thinning, the Cragin watershed generally held 200 to 600 trees per acre, Barton said, though some acres exceeded 1,000 trees. The Forest Service prescribed thinning to 50 to 100 trees per ...

Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at ...

In the parched summer of 1988, wildfires ripped through more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park during the most severe fire year in park history. Approximately 1.2 million acres scorched by ...