Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Matt Kirwan walks through Maryland’s Blackwater National Refuge, his rubber boots begin to squish. With each step the land ...

Forest composition, ground cover and topography are the best predictors of forest fire severity in the Western US, according to physical geographers who also see that the long history of fire ...

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Figure 1: Map of study sites by country and by study location. Our meta-analysis provides a global assessment of the relative conservation value of a broad range of human-modified tropical forests.

Salmon recovery is in the news again, with Washington tribes and the federal government recently appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court over whether the state should be required to replace road ...

In Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, 9 community forestry concessions have been managing over 350,000 hectares of forest for more than 15 years. The communities aim to manage the concessions ...

Forest edges influence more than half of the world’s forests and contribute to worldwide declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, predicting these declines is challenging in ...

Madagascar is one of the first countries where WWF has sought to innovate on the field in terms of restoring degraded forests in the east-central part of the country. The Earth loses 7 million ...

There has been much global discussion about the best ways to manage Earth's forests in an era of climate change and more ...

Forests have arrived as a natural climate solution. Look no further than COP26, the latest IPCC Report or President Biden’s Earth Day Executive Order and you will see serious attention to the power of ...