Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health.

HR 1904, introduced by Representative McInnis, passed the House and is now in debate on the Senate floor. It is a forest management bill that would either protect, or grossly mismanage, America's ...

New research suggests preventing larger, hotter wildfires could help slow the release of planet-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and that there are forests in Arizona and the West where the ...

Sooyeon Laura Jin is Forestry Officer (Policy & Governance), Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Nancy Aburto is Deputy Director, Food and Nutrition ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

A recent WSSA research article shows significant drawbacks to focusing on just one threat to native forest regeneration Forest regeneration failure means insufficient juvenile tree density to replace ...

As scientists continue to research the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, one fact has become clear: Deforestation is linked to emerging diseases. When humans destroy forests to create land for human ...

In Elk County, a behemoth is performing surgery on a forest. Its yellow head — taller than a human and equipped with 18 ...

The Forest Service often asserts that logging reduces wildfires by “fortifying forest resilience against insects and disease.” We continuously hear from the Forest Service and others that logging ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of The Nature Conservancy forest ecologist and study co-author Travis Woolley. New research suggests preventing ...