It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

Western forests are still burning too infrequently for their own good, a finding that may seem paradoxical to Arizonans anticipating a dangerous fire year after a drought-plagued winter.

Falk’s advice, beyond reducing emissions, is for forest managers to increase the combination of mechanical thinning and prescribed burning by at least tenfold. That’s also the finding in a ...

In 2023 and 2024 the world’s forests absorbed only a quarter of the carbon dioxide they did in the beginning of the 21st century, according to data from the World Resources Institute’s Global ...

Over a short time of 10+ years, the emerald ash borer has killed tens of millions of ash trees both in natural and urban forests in the United States and Canada.

Only two other underwater eruptions have been observed in real time before, and neither of those happened along an ocean ridge. But a staggering 80 percent of our planet’s volcanic and seismic ...