The world's forests are changing silently, and scientists are warning about the loss of key tree species and lack of biodiversity.

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists. Scientists warn this subtle shift could have far-reaching consequences.

The upper panel depicts the coastal forest pre-tsunami, while the lower panel illustrates the forest post-tsunami. Each column represents the percentage decrease in coastal tree cover resulting from ...

Forests with few tree species pose considerably higher risk of being damaged and especially vulnerable is the introduced lodgepole pine. Forests with few tree species pose considerably higher risk of ...

In the fight against too much carbon in the atmosphere, researchers have found that mixed forests — and specifically mixed European hardwoods — are dramatically better at storing carbon than single ...

Europe's forests have already been severely affected by climate change. Thousands of hectares of trees have already died due to drought and bark beetles. Scientists have now investigated which trees ...

There has been much global discussion about the best ways to manage Earth's forests in an era of climate change and more ...

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

A new study explains why Pacific Northwest old forests face growing wildfire risk and how past fire suppression shaped ...

Forests with few tree species pose considerably higher risk of being damaged and especially vulnerable is the introduced lodgepole pine. This is shown in a new study by researchers from Umeå ...