When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases. The forests are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Bill Moomaw, a distinguished visiting scientist at the Woodwell ...

Forests increasingly face pressures and risks such as pests, pollution and forest fires, all of which are aggravated by climate change. Making forests more resilient means helping them adapt to ...

The forthcoming order echoes President Trump’s decision to repeal executive orders that have protected other public lands from vehicles for decades. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington The ...

Mr. Ferguson is the author of “The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West.” He wrote from Tucson, Ariz. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The forest floor was nothing but patches of brown. No ferns, no brush, no flowers, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A sweeping reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service under the Trump ...

As large floods occur more frequently worldwide, many wonder what led to such devastating events. Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, improper land management and forest removal increase ...

On a recent morning in central Vermont, where I live, it was raining, and the wood frogs had just begun to chorus. The sap run from the maple trees has started to dwindle as the branches begin to bud ...

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered that most microplastics arrive through the air, settling onto treetops ...

Most of Europe’s original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper and timber. The few remaining “old-growth” natural forests are relics of the ...

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...