Block plantations like these may look efficient, but research shows that more diverse and randomised tree arrangements boost forest productivity and ecosystem health. A new paper published in Nature ...

The oldest trees in the forest carry outsized importance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient trees, the venerable sentinels ...

Ireland’s reputation for being largely treeless, with stubbornly low planting rates and a history of monoculture forestry – non-native trees often planted in the wrong places – may be changing. But it ...

A Latahar tree in Jhapa's Jalthal forest. All photos: LILA NATH SHARMA Deep inside Jhapa’s Jalthal forest, a group of us botanists were identifying the diversity of flora in the lowest-lying part of ...

If you take a hike through the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park (PNMT), part of the Amazon rainforest in the northern Brazilian state of Amapá, you will very quickly notice the scaled red walls ...

Alana Chin receives funding from Save the Redwoods League. Marcus Schaub receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...

Filaments of fungi intertwine with the tips of tree roots to form underground networks that seem to benefit both organisms: the filaments, called hyphae, break down minerals in the soil that trees can ...