Cattle ranches have ruled the Amazon for decades. Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock away planet-warming carbon. Forest restoration workers planted native ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Los Angeles has a 700,000-acre national forest playground with 557 miles of trails accessible within an hour’s ...

The carbon storage capacity of forests is widely recognized as a crucial factor in curbing global warming and preventing climate catastrophe. But a new study finds that the future potential for forest ...

In 2006, Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s government passed the Public Forest Management Law, implementing a forest concession scheme designed to regulate and legalize logging activities in ...

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for coastal woodlands Kristen Goodhue PNNL Earth scientist Peter Regier (left) ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Miranda Zammarelli hikes into the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in central New Hampshire, pausing when she sees a tree with a pink ribbon wrapped around its trunk. Zammarelli, a behavioral ...

Sixty years ago, these freshwater springs and forests were drowned by a 9,500-acre reservoir. Could the ecosystem finally be restored? A snorkeler explores the fish-filled depths of Tobacco Patch ...