Much of the conservation and climate change spotlight falls on tropical forests. Given this, people might forget that forests in the temperate areas—those found in large parts of North America, Europe ...

The site sees the last of 30,000 mixed-native trees go into the ground two years ahead of schedule.

It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest trees here in northern California. The flowers of spring – the trillium and the ...

For decades, scientists believed cool temperate rainforests were fragile ecosystems easily damaged by disturbances like fires or logging. But new research from the University of Melbourne challenges ...

Climate change is likely to drive tree species towards colder and wetter regions of their geographical distribution, a new study has shown. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has studied the role of ...

Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team, coordinated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and INRAE, mapped for the first time ...

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A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

The reason why so many tree species can coexist in species-rich forests has long been a subject of debate in ecology. This question is key to understanding the mechanisms governing the dynamics and ...

John Healey receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK Government, Welsh Government, Woodknowledge Wales. The term “temperate rainforest”, or “Celtic rainforest”, has ...