Dead trees in streams store surprising amounts of carbon, offering an overlooked tool in the fight against climate change.

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more ...

In the north, protected coniferous forests must be at least 160 years old, with a minimum of 10 cubic meters of dead wood per hectare. In addition, the government lists four other criteria – species ...

To the Editor, As the anniversary of a massive brushfire approaches, it's time we learned our lesson. On April 14, 2023, a human-set brushfire in Exeter burned more than 200 acres of ...