John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...

Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, ecologists are testing which tree ...

Old-growth forests are some of Europe's most valuable natural ecosystems, but they are also among the most threatened. Their ...

Trees are so common that it’s easy to assume no one has ever counted them. Surprisingly, scientists have. While no one has physically counted every trunk and branch, researchers have combined ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...