Scientists at a NY university say they can bring back the near extinct American chestnut tree, wiped out a century ago, ...

A century-old conservation group is directing millions of dollars from the nation's largest climate law toward faith communities to plant trees in parts of cities long overlooked and underserved.

The 19th century may seem distant to us today, but in a new book by Alexander Nemerov, “The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s,” readers have a chance to walk through the woods of the early 1800s ...

Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires, according to research published in Nature Communications. The findings ...

Today, American Forests and partners Speak for the Trees, Boston and PowerCorpsBOS of the City of Boston announced receipt of a $1.5 million, three-year implementation grant from Liberty Mutual ...

U.S. forests help mitigate climate change by storing some 15 billion metric tons of carbon in trees’ leaves, trunks, and limbs. But climate change also makes their future highly uncertain. Rising ...

EUREKA, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 19 : Barren hillsides on forest lands near Headwaters Forest (CA) are stripped of trees and harvested by loggers, December 19, 1998 in Eureka, California. (Photo by Getty ...

It's not enough to plant trees in cities. They need to grow in communities where access to nature has long been ignored. Low-income neighborhoods have fewer trees. Here’s why that’s a problem The ...

An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite ...