Forests

Melting glaciers, plant genetics, protection from forever chemicals, and more: An annual look at the conservation horizon reveals priorities for the years ahead.

More than 50 years after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship, the authoritarian regime still casts a long shadow over this wildfire-prone country.

The U.S. Forest Service includes fire it intentionally sets as part of its acreage count of the nation’s “wildfires.” That presents an inaccurate picture.

Local communities strive to protect local forests and headwaters that include some of the Amazon River’s most important water sources.

Wood-pellet companies have devastated forests in the Southeast and New England. Now they’re looking to expand.

The fabled rainforest is starting to release its carbon as climate change, deforestation and other human threats drive it toward the limits of survival.

A timber sale looms over hiking trails, a nearby city’s water supply, and already-vulnerable salmon and orca populations.

A swing from drought to heavy snow and rain has been a mixed blessing for the West’s plants and animals.

Federal agencies are implementing numerous logging projects in mature and old forests despite calling for forest protections.

New research shows that these ecosystem engineers can be an “ally in stopping the decline of biodiversity.”