Can the Acorn Crop Predict Lyme Disease?
Will cutting fewer forests, where tick hosts and their predators live, help curb Lyme disease? Scientists debate.
A Clever Way to Conserve Forests
As climate change looms, scientists seek ways to reduce the release of carbon. Sometimes a low-tech approach is overlooked: conserving forests.
This Week in Sustainability: From Ice Age to Internet Age, Scientists Look for Clues to Species’ Extinctions
Scientists explore the causes--climate change, habitat destruction, and more--that decimated animals and humans alike, from Ice Age to Internet Age.
Maybe Earthworms Aren’t So Great For Soil After All
Earthworms are often portrayed as beneficial to the environment, but in North America's temperate forests, they are a disaster in action.
The Cork Oak Forests Want You to Drink More Wine
Corks come from a tree that is part of a unique ecosystem dependent on cork harvest for its survival.
Can Game Theory Help Save Our Forests?
How forests and endangered species might be saved by artificial intelligence and game theory.
DNA Law and Order: Logging Edition
Illegal logging is pervasive across the globe, occurring anywhere there are exploitable forests. The resulting timber is illicitly traded and ...
The Secret Lives of Trees
Trees in the forest communicate with each other through underground networks shaped and assisted by ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Fire Season is Getting Longer and Longer
A look at how climate change and human influences are changing the dynamics of fire, and the landscape, in the American west.