In Panama’s tropical forests, trees are quietly rewriting the rules of survival. Faced with longer, harsher dry spells, they ...
Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...
Bamboo invasion has been widely observed across Asia (e.g., China, Japan, and India), North America, South America (e.g., Brazil and Peru) and Africa. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), a ...
Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...
Picture a forested hillside stripped bare, replaced by row after row of black solar panels. That’s the tradeoff many communities face: renewable power at the cost of ecosystems. But a growing body of ...
Alana Chin receives funding from Save the Redwoods League. Marcus Schaub receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...
In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...
A Latahar tree in Jhapa's Jalthal forest. All photos: LILA NATH SHARMA Deep inside Jhapa’s Jalthal forest, a group of us botanists were identifying the diversity of flora in the lowest-lying part of ...