Illegal logging is pervasive across the globe, occurring anywhere there are exploitable forests. The resulting timber is illicitly traded and ...

National parks and monuments have always been controversial, opposed by ranchers, farmers, resource, extractors, and small government conservatives. 

Trees in the forest communicate with each other through underground networks shaped and assisted by ectomycorrhizal fungi. 

Tree rings provide scientists with helpful clues regarding the planet's climate patterns, past and present.

Are we at the point of no return?

The mangrove is essential to ecosystems, but is in danger of becoming extinct.

Historian George E. Webb recounts the intertwined relationship between solar physics and dendrochronology

Once plentiful, chestnuts were virtually extirpated from the forests of eastern North America by WWII.