Forests

What border communities really need are solutions to address economic, health and climate problems — and the mesquite tree can help.

The unexpected announcement reverses a plan to move people out of critical protected habitats — and puts the nation’s amazing biodiversity at risk.

Researcher Emily Francis explains how the coast redwoods and sequoias fared during California’s drought and what that means for future climate resilience.

Two western states have launched new challenges to the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which helps protect some of the country’s most important public lands.

Protecting the planet from climate change and extinction depends on similarly protecting indigenous peoples, according to several new reports.

Wildfire expert and Arizona State University professor Stephen Pyne answers five burning questions.

Two dams removed from Washington’s Elwha River were branded as salmon-restoration projects, but their watershed and scientific impacts are just as significant.

Climate change may threaten the trees grown in inland cities. Adapting to that threat may help us protect city residents and mitigate future warming.

Researchers have identified a new tree species in Cameroon, but it only grew in a landscape that has now been destroyed by agriculture.

We have five questions for Shelley Silbert, executive director of the advocacy group Great Old Broads for Wilderness.