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 are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays ...

Oak trees accumulate more wood when there is more carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. That's the key finding from our new study, carried out in a long-established forest in Staffordshire, England, ...

Imagine you’re in a forest. Do you feel soft pine needles underfoot? Or perhaps droplets of rain dripping down from the understory? Is it warm and wet, or cool and dry? What does it smell like? Every ...

The national forests in the United States span an extraordinary range of landscapes. Desert peaks, swampy coastlines, and even a tropical rainforest all fall under the authority of the U.S. Forest ...

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

Relocating trees to protect forests struggling with climate change seems promising, but the extreme complexity of ecosystems ...

Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science ...