Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are ...

Humans have cleared forests for thousands of years. Modern deforestation, however, has pushed the world’s forests ...

These plants helped pull carbon dioxide from the ancient atmosphere and lock it away in rock and soil. Hundreds of millions ...

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When a record-breaking drought and heat wave swept across China's Yangtze River Basin in 2022, forests across the region ...

Plants are often attributed with abilities similar to those known in the animal or human world. Trees are said to have feelings and can therefore care for their offspring, like mothers. Researchers ...

Akira Miyawaki was a Japanese botanist who studied how forests grow and how to restore them after damage. He focused on potential natural vegetation (PNV). This refers to the plants that would ...

It’s a mini forest where a small, ivy-encroached, mulched clearing had been. About two dozen University of Virginia student volunteers recently planted 85 trees and shrubs in about an hour, with the ...

Many people think of earthworms as the wriggly, unsung heroes of the environment. Their positive effect on the environment is ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers have analyzed 917 native forest plant species in Central and ...