Rapid deforestation due to expanding agriculture, logging, population centers, and other factors has been making headlines around the world for decades. Luckily, forests still cover more than 30 ...

Boreal forests are being clear-cut faster than some of their wildlife and plant species can recover, with a few failing to ...

When officials make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. But there are several types of diversity, and not all of them overlap ...

In Québec, there are two distinct types of forest: the northern temperate forest in the south, and the boreal forest in the north. These forest ecosystems provide many different and essential services ...

Are western U.S. forests threatened so much by failing post-fire tree regeneration that extensive forest loss may occur by mid-century? Increasing temperatures are drying forests, more fires are being ...

John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...