Forests

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.

When roads are built in grizzly habitat, bears come into conflict with humans more often. A new report explains what’s necessary to keep the bears from dying.

Books coming out this month also examine endangered languages, the lingering effects of colonialism and how war hurts the environment.

A historian of wildfires explains the difference between urban and rural fire cultures, and what it means for protecting communities in fire-prone rural areas.