If you saw a plan that’s already cut down 200,000 trees, with millions more in the crosshairs, you might think it’s an environmental apocalypse in the making. However, this seemingly drastic approach ...

When hills are healthy, vegetation can anchor the soil in place. But when that is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable to erosion, and slopes can come crashing down.

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...

Rain on burned hillslopes can trigger dangerous floods and debris flows. Those debris flows can move with the speed of a ...

GRANGEVILLE - The Commissioners discussed and moved on a variety of action items on the agenda at last week’s meeting on Feb.

Welcome to the first article in our 4-part series on the fascinating dynamics of forests and fires in the Estes Valley! One ...

Wildlife photographer Ingo Arndt discovered his first enormous ant mound as a child exploring the forest with his father near their home in Germany almost 50 years ago. They were bird-watching ...

Initial location: Los Angeles County, Calif. Eatonhurst Postfire Baer initially started 3:12 a.m. Jan. 18 in Los Angeles ...

A coastline is the interface between the land and the sea, and there the land is always in flux, subject to oceans’ and ...

"Community members become stewards of the land itself." New 'pocket forests' are transforming cities in a quiet way: 'They ...