A new study shows that it is possible to increase the number of bird species in a forest fragment without increasing its size ...

A summit on how to protect the world's largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the ...

In Awisa, a village in western Ghana’s cocoa belt, footpaths of red earth wind from small houses to a shallow, muddy hole in ...

More than 200 forest ecologists and top climate scientists, including Jim Hansen and Michael Mann, have written the Biden administration urging it to quickly move forward on the president’s commitment ...

A study has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their above-ground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas. A ...

Climate change is challenging the sustainable provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services in mountain forests, including the important protection service against gravitational natural hazards.

Forests in mountain areas provide an indispensable ecosystem service by protecting people and infrastructure from natural hazards. However, open questions remain regarding its long-term and reliable ...

There will be four medals in all, a gold, silver, and bronze, which will be in addition to a special gold medal for those who have rendered exceptional service in forest protection.