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A research team led by Prof. Liang Yu from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently reconstructed the post-volcanic-eruption forest landscape in Changbai ...

Forest hydrology, the study of how water flows through forests, can help illuminate the connections between forests and water, but it must advance if it is to deal with today's complexities, including ...

In Québec, there are two distinct types of forest: the northern temperate forest in the south, and the boreal forest in the north. These forest ecosystems provide many different and essential services ...

Reforestation has enormous potential as a cheap and natural way of sucking heat-absorbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and restoring the degraded natural world, while supporting local ...

Of the world’s remaining forests, only 40% are intact, with high ecological integrity, according to data from a newly developed index that’s the first of its kind to measure forest conditions on a ...

This article was originally published by YaleEnvironment360 and is republished here by permission. Lyndon Johnson signed the bill that established the Redwood National Park in California 55 years ago.