Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes. Tasmania ...

Complicating the issue further: In many areas of national forests, current trees are “the wrong size and the wrong species for the forest industry to process,” he said. Expanding logging ...

The world celebrates International Day of Forests on Friday, but President Trump aims to expand American logging and roll ...

Tasmania's practice of logging centuries-old trees received international attention – and condemnation – last year when one was trucked through the centre of Hobart. Now, the state's public ...

The difficulties of logging saved giant sequoias in other groves from this fate. Courtesy of National Park Service Another factor that can end the lives of big trees, of course, is logging.

“Los Padres Forest seems to have no concern about logging many thousands of old-growth conifers from Pine Mountain,” said Alasdair Coyne, conservation director at Keep Sespe Wild. “These ‘sky islands’ ...

“This ruling is a giant win,” said Adam Rissien ... Trees continue to absorb and store carbon as they grow and age. Logging, transportation and manufacturing release most of trees’ stored carbon over ...

An Oregon logging company cuts trees in the Malheur National Forest in 2020. The "Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production" executive order directs all federal agencies to rescind ...

The executive order also calls for expanding domestic logging production on federal lands ... to the clear-cutting of 280 million acres of trees in national forests and other protected federal ...

The protester could be heard screaming as their harness caught them before they fell, with logging contractor Patrick John Mellor later found guilty of assault. A Tasmanian logging worker who cut ...

While the world celebrates the many ways trees and forests help sustain human and animal life, deforestation poses a significant threat to these vital ecosystems, both in the United States and abroad.