The U.S. Forest Service said that more than 90% of the land in the Conecuh National Forest would be available for oil and gas wells.

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...

But new research published this week finds that non-forest ecosystems—the world’s grasslands, savannas, and wetlands—are being devoured for agriculture at nearly four times the rate as forests. As ...

Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products.

The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of ...

LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. THE GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER IS BRINGING A NEW ECOSYSTEM TO THE PIEDMONT TRIAD. THE CENTER IS BUILDING A RAIN FOREST COMPLETE WITH ANIMALS NOT FOUND IN ECOSYSTEMS IN NORTH AMERICA ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and ...

There’s much, much more to the rainforest than meets the eye. Even a highly trained observer can struggle to pick out individual animals in the tangle of plant life—animals that are often specifically ...