Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

Before sunrise, deep in remote terrain, a single worker steps out of a tent into cold, uncertain weather. The job ahead is ...

The ecosystem is a delicate balance between all living organisms, including plants and animals, as well as the weather and climate they endure. There are also multiple ecosystem types within each ...

"Painter et al. claim that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park has produced a strong trophic cascade ...

Before it was Calvin’s campus, the land on which the college resides was farmland. And the nature preserve was where the farmers went to get their firewood. Consequently, there wasn’t much nature left ...

Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina. Salt marshes are migrating to take the place of wetland forests, ...

When it comes to slowing climate change, there’s one natural solution that has recently gripped the world: large-scale tree planting and reforestation. But a new study warns that other natural climate ...

Death casts a shadow over life, not only for people but also other animals, plants and entire ecosystems. In some ways, the ...

People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a ...

An ancient kola tree has been cut down in southern Ghana. Local tradition held that the tree had grown on the spot where spiritual leader Komfo Anokye had spat a kola nut onto the ground three ...

When we consider the very beginnings of life on Earth, we might envision giant dinosaurs stomping through ancient forests, or ...