Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

Colorado’s two largest fires on record, the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires, burned hundreds of thousands of acres across some of the state’s most visited landscapes in 2020. The fires ...

After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new analysis shows that the Pacific Northwest’s mature and old-growth forests are most at risk of severe wildfire in areas that historically burned frequently at lower severity.

Forest ecosystems cover nearly one-third of Earth’s land surface, hosting a wide diversity of plant and animal communities and providing multiple ecosystem ...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the longleaf pine. The forest once stretched across 92 million acres from ...

Across the planet, forests are no longer the relatively stable backdrops they once seemed. From the Amazon to the Arctic, species are shuffling, tree mortality is spiking and fire seasons are ...

Amid a swirling mix of past mismanagement of forests in the western U.S., an explosion of dense settlements, and hotter, drier conditions on account of climate change, there’s been a push in recent ...