There is no crystal ball to tell ecologists how forests of the future will respond to the changing climate, but a University of Arizona-led team of researchers may have created the next best thing. By ...

The viability of our world’s forests is constantly threatened by climate change, urbanization and invasive species. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Ph.D. student Jack Levy-Diedrich investigates ...

America’s forests have a tough time in store for them. Climate change is increasing temperatures and decreasing moisture levels across the country, not a winning combination for trees. Researchers at ...

True Kids 1 students created this highly collaborative project exploring the various components of forest ecology, wildfire, and a bird's eye view of what our forests will look like in 15 years. The ...

Buzz Williams, 72, works for the Chattooga Conservancy. In August he showed a painted orange ring around a black gum tree on Brushy Mountain. The ring indicates trees that will be spared, but in ...

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for ...

Western North Carolina is home to hundreds of miles of hiking trails, cascading waterfalls, old-growth forests and sacred lands, most of which are found throughout Pisgah and Nantahala national ...

A new study published in the journal Global Change Biology discusses the future of forests. Researchers from the University of Arizona have combined tree-ring data from the U.S. Forest Service with ...

Some forests take one-two punches surprisingly well. Carl Norlen and Mike Goulden, ecologists at the University of California, Irvine, studied roughly 520,000 hectares of California forest (about 4 ...

Did you know that 50% to 75% of the water we use in New Mexico comes from forests? The trees that protect the winter snowpack and help filter water into our aquifers are being killed by drought, ...

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