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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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 ...

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 ...

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to deforestation and forest degradation. But nature ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Changes in growing-season Palmer drought severity index, community-mean drought tolerance and above-ground biomass between the 1980s and 2000s in the eastern USA. Figure 2: Relationships ...