With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

Restoring even a fraction of the Tamaulipan thorn forest could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

In the Mexican port city of Acapulco, in southwestern Guerrero state, human activities have put so much pressure on the most ...

The US government has reduced environmental protections for logging in over half of the national forests, citing wildfire risks. The new policy fast-tracks environmental assessments and eliminates ...

Sticking to a diet packed with fruit, milk and nuts may give you a fighting chance of living to 100, a new study suggests. A Mediterranean-style diet plan has long been hailed as the secret behind ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

A shingles vaccine, already offered on the NHS, could dramatically reduce the risk of dementia, a major new study has found. The research has shown that older adults given the jab are 20 per cent ...

Indigenous Dayak community makes strides on Borneo toward forest autonomy ...

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