For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open ...

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When people think of the Outer Banks, warm sunshine, cool ocean waves and soft sand come to mind. But there is so much more to the story than a thin strip of beach along the Atlantic Ocean. Protected ...

Gurugram: The India State of Forest Report 2023, released Saturday by the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav, paints a grim picture of Haryana’s forest cover.

In Western Colorado, we understand how connected everything is: forests to watersheds, snowpack to irrigation, public lands to the economy. And we’ve seen what happens when one part of that system ...

A reforestation project in Asia is reaping the benefits of incorporating local ecological knowledge into its efforts. Nepal was on the brink of losing its hillside forest cover entirely because of ...

Humans have destroyed or degraded around two-thirds of the world’s tropical forests—mainly through cutting and burning trees to make way for agriculture. Roughly every six seconds, another football ...