In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

A carpet of ground cover plants will cover unsightly bare soil and help suppress weeds – here are some top options to choose ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old ...

Imagine walking across the seemingly endless, sun-baked plains of southern Africa. The ground looks barren, the air shimmers ...

If you’ve ever dug your hands into fresh earth and felt its cool, crumbly texture, you might have noticed the subtle, earthy ...

There is a common belief that because these wooden poles are underwater, they don’t rot because of the lack of oxygen.

Peter von Tiesenhausen calls the slow-growing row of white pickets, known as Lifeline, his ‘most profound’ work of art.

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

Then, beginning in the 1970s, they moved onto higher ground. Before Houston ... The area received sufficient rainfall to support forests, but the soil is composed primarily of thick, cloying ...

because swaths of ground are typically heavily bulldozed to get the trees out. That compacts the soil, increasing the risk it can't absorb rains. The Los Padres forest, which spans lands in ...