Imagine walking through a forest and knowing that beneath your feet lies an invisible internet connecting every tree around you. The ground is alive with conversation. Trees are sharing food with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees killed by drought and an outbreak of bark beetles in California's Tahoe National Forest in 2023. AP Photo/Godofredo A.

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have analyzed 96 years of forest census data to better understand ecological changes and inform management practices. Their study, published ...

In forests in the eastern U.S., it can be easy to miss the fact that things are going awry. Elsewhere, in places like the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada, the signs may be more obvious: a whole ...

Elle Bowd receives funding from the Australian government, the NSW government, and the ACT government. David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian government, the Victorian government, and ...