The environmental impacts of illegal mining pose a direct threat to biodiversity. The destruction of habitats, contamination ...

Once a hallmark of forests from Georgia to New England, American chestnuts now exist mostly as a vast network of root systems ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing protection for one of the nation’s most beloved species — the monarch butterfly — and is encouraging the public to be part of its recovery.

The president set out to leave a legacy on nation's most carbon-rich forests. Experts say he dropped the ball.

She said all occupied lands will be freed from illegal occupation within the next three months and instructed deputy commissioners to expedite the process of demarcating forest boundaries ...

As I've been documenting community forests, I've heard left- and right-leaning folks alike passionately describe their community forest’s benefits.

When David Vanderhoop, elder of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), heard about a plan to clear out acres of trees in ...

The rising levels of climate change threaten the Arctic with unprecedented wildfires, endangering ecosystems and worsening global warming.

I walk almost daily up into the Santa Fe National Forest along with neighbors and our dogs, and I am always reminded how ...

Nepal has too many tigers and too much forest, according to the country’s leader. The offhand remarks by Prime Minister K.P.