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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Tag: Forests

Paying people to replant tropical forests − and letting them harvest...

Jefferson S. Hall, Smithsonian Institution; Katherine Sinacore, Smithsonian Institution, and Michiel van Breugel, National University of Singapore Tropical forest...

The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes...

Ronny Rotbarth, Wageningen University; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University; Logan Berner, Northern Arizona University, and Roman Dial, Alaska Pacific University

What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and...

Kyra Clark-Wolf, University of Colorado Boulder and Philip Higuera, University of Montana Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after...

Arbor Day: Why planting trees isn’t enough

Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz and Pedro Brancalion, Universidade de São Paulo For 151 years, Americans...

Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds...

Shermin de Silva, University of California, San Diego Despite their iconic status and long association with humans, Asian elephants...

Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look

Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....

Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when...

Richard B. Primack, Boston University; Benjamin R. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, and Tara K. Miller, Boston University For short-lived...

Russia’s aggression threatens efforts to protect nature beyond Ukraine

Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, University of Washington; Duan Biggs, Northern Arizona University; Nives Dolsak, University of Washington, and Paul G. Harris, The Education University...

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma