Wooden brdige in the hiking loop around Ward Lake, Tongass National Forest. “The Tongass National Forest makes up over 90 percent of Southeast Alaska,” says Peter Nave, owner and lead guide of Wild ...

Quinault Rain Forest in Olympic National Park is home to the Rain Forest Nature Trail, a scenic walking route filled with mossy trees, thick ferns, and peaceful forest sounds. The path moves through ...

It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest trees here in northern California. The flowers of spring – the trillium and the ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a whale watching and wildlife viewing tour where you may spot humpback or killer whales. Ride the ...

Temperate forests comprise complex networks of interactions among plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms that underpin ecosystem structure and function. Key processes include herbivory, predation, ...

Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team, coordinated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and INRAE, mapped for the first time ...

European forests are increasingly turning brown in the course of hot, dry summers. In the scorching summer of 2022, Europe experienced more trees turning brown than ever, with 37% of temperate and ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

Chile is home to several different climates, each offering something special. The southwest region of Chile is home to the Selva Valdiviana, or the Valdivian Temperate Forest, which has monkey puzzle ...

Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a whale watching and wildlife viewing tour where you may spot humpback or killer whales. Ride the ...