Microplastics and nanoplastics are not only polluting our oceans, rivers and fields, but also our forests, according to ...

The conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way these ecosystems function, according to a new study published in Nature.

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only ...

Once ecosystems collapse, others replace them. Within 50 years of reaching a tipping point, the study shows the Amazon rainforest could become a savannah-type ecosystem made up of trees and grasses.

The 1,600-acre inland lake not far from Lake Huron is home to Michigan’s largest bed of native wild rice, called manoomin in ...

The second-largest intact tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Maya Region stretches tens of millions of acres through southern Mexico.

By Rhett Ayers Butler The forests of northern Europe provided Tim Christophersen with his first education. As a child in ...

After years of lawsuits and protests, the U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a wide-reaching management plan for the ...