When most people think of Southern California, they think of sun-drenched beaches, thirsty deserts, and glamorous ocean ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

The Hungry Horse Ranger District on the Flathead National Forest in Montana recently announced the Moccasin Granite Project to “treat” a 67,536-acre area ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In a surprise announcement at The Game Awards, indie horror studio Endnight Games has revealed Forest 3, a follow-up to The Forest and Sons of the ...

Endnight Games showed up for The Game Awards 2025 with what may be one of the most unexpected announcements of the night: Forest 3 is coming. A trailer for the latest in its line of popular survival ...

Hugh Safford is calling out into the woods for a tree. That’s normal enough for a forest ecologist, but the tree he’s searching for — the Jeffrey pine — was not, until recently, expected to live ...

After University of California, Davis, forest ecologist Hugh Safford stumbled upon California’s highest tree, a Jeffrey pine, in the High Sierra in 2024, he vowed to return. He wanted to learn more ...

The U.S. Forest Service is going back to the drawing board with an update to the Northwest Forest Plan, a set of policies that broadly dictates where logging can occur on 25 million acres of forests ...

Nevada’s last glacier is real. It exists. Driving across Nevada over Labor Day weekend, I feared it would already be gone. The writer or journalist or recordkeeper has this fear: that if we don’t ...

Eve-Lyn Hinckley receives funding from The National Science Foundation. The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are magical places. Dripping with mosses and deep ...

Many high-elevation areas have been slow to recover to forest since the 1988 fires. In them, more than 90 percent of the aboveground carbon is stored in dead logs, with very little found in young ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Thirty years of above average temperatures make it hard to be a tree, said Dan West, forest entomologist for the Colorado State Forest Service. Hotter weather means less water, ...