As large floods occur more frequently worldwide, many wonder what led to such devastating events. Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, improper land management and forest removal increase ...

On a recent morning in central Vermont, where I live, it was raining, and the wood frogs had just begun to chorus. The sap run from the maple trees has started to dwindle as the branches begin to bud ...

The tall alpine ash forests in Australia’s high country have lived in a delicate relationship with fire for tens of thousands of years. Intensifying fire seasons are threatening this balance to the ...

The U.S. Forest Service, which manages 16 million acres of public land in Oregon, announced a major reorganization on March 31 that includes closing regional offices in Portland and opening a new ...

The U.S. Forest Service is moving its headquarters from Washington, DC, to Salt Lake City. Officials state the move will place leadership closer to the Western lands the agency manages and improve its ...

The Trump administration will move the headquarters for the U.S. Forest Service from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, it announced Tuesday. In a press release, the Department of Agriculture said ...

The U.S. Forest Service will relocate its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, moving hundreds of positions as part of a broader agency reorganization the Trump administration says would ...

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered that most microplastics arrive through the air, settling onto treetops ...

Swedish old-growth forests store 83% more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is mainly due ...

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...

A gray dogwood seedling, no bigger than a few twigs, lived in a pot on my porch last summer. My family sheltered and watered it and then, in October, we joined hundreds of fellow volunteers in tucking ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has seen only minor recovery ...