Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest ...

With less than five years remaining to 2030—and forests, a key driver of climate resilience, livelihoods and food security, under threat— the United Nations today launched The Global Forest Goals ...

Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth.

Tasmania has long been considered a global “climate refuge,” where cool, ocean-influenced conditions allow species like the giant freshwater crayfish to persist as mainland Australia warms. But new ...

Photosynthesis is the oldest carbon-capture technology on Earth. For eons, plants have pulled carbon dioxide from the ...

Ecologists warn that in just 25 years, more than 70 percent of the Southwestern needle leaf evergreen forests, which include ...

The new Global Forest Goals Report 2026, launching this month, will reveal just how much ground we've lost and what it will take to turn the tide before 2030. We spoke with UN DESA’s expert Shyam ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Maryland environmental leaders gathered in Cambridge Wednesday to announce the launch of “Roots for ...

Chimpanzee nest-building behavior may reveal an ability to respond to weather cues before nighttime conditions fully arrive.

Tropical forests store more than 60% of the world's vegetation biomass and are among the most important ecosystems for regulating the global carbon cycle and climate. However, their regulatory role is ...

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the ...