Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

This week marks the start of Boreal Stargazing Week, a weeklong event celebrating Minnesota’s dark skies and showcasing why Minnesota has one of the largest International Dark Sky Sanctuary areas ...

The older stands are blue magenta. Everything that’s younger is yellows or oranges or light greens. You can color it any way ...

After living in Hong Kong for 21 years, arts patron and Khao Yai Art founder Marisa Chearavanont moved back to Thailand in ...

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into ...

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In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...

The Arctic-boreal zone, historically a carbon sink, is now a carbon source, with 34% of the region emitting more CO 2 than it absorbs, increasing to 40% when fire emissions are included.

It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute of Forest Research, leads me further into this small patch of woodland here in ...