Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the ...

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

The Douglas fir is an indelible symbol of the Pacific Northwest. The thick-barked native represents the aesthetics of biologically rich Cascadia and the checkered past of overlogging.

Liberia is losing its forest largely due to logging, shifting agriculture, and burning of charcoal. According to Global Forest Watch, “From 2002 to 2023, Liberia lost 347,000 hectares of humid primary ...