Forests
The Best and Worst Places to Build More Roads
Road works today are “basically chaos”—but a new global road map could be key to protecting agriculture and nature
The Forest Service Is Running Out of Money to Fight Fires
Firefighting and prevention costs now blaze through 51 percent of the U.S. Forest Service budget, compared to 17 percent in 1995
How Solar-Powered Recycled Smartphones Could Save the Rainforest
A Silicon Valley non-profit is ready to give the forests of Africa and the Amazon ears to listen for loggers—and the ability to phone the authorities
Removing Just a Few Trees Can Lower Tropical Animal Biodiversity
Selective logging can halve the number of species of mammals and amphibians in a forest
Borneo Has Lost 30 Percent of Its Forest in the Past 40 Years
Borneo's tropical forests have fallen at twice the rate as the rest of the world's felled rainforests
What the Spread Of A Plant Mildew Tells Us About Forests
Fragmenting habitats into smaller pieces may let diseases spread more easily, a new study finds
Beetles Have Destroyed 38,000 Square Miles of Forest
As part of this year’s farm bill, the United States Forest Service will try to rehabilitate beetle-infested forests
How to Bring a Devastated Forest Back to Life
Humans have damaged the world’s forests, but not irreparably
Restoring Cut Rainforests Might Not Work Well If There’s Light Pollution Nearby
Fruit-eating bats can't do their job distributing seeds around the new jungle patch if they're blinded by lights
The Remnants of Prehistoric Plant Pollen Reveal that Humans Shaped Forests 11,000 Years Ago
The discoveries could boost indigenous populations' claims to ancestral lands long thought to be untouched by human activity
Congo’s Civil Wars Took A Toll On Its Forests
Conflicts drove the human population deep into protected areas, satellite maps reveal
As Drug Traffickers Move In, Tropical Forests Fall
Deforestation in Central America goes hand-in-hand with narcotics operations, which replace forests with airstrips, roads and money-laundering farms
Smithsonian's Bee Man Delivers Up Some Advice for Dealing with Colony Collapse Disorder
David Roubik, who pioneered the field of tropical bee studies, says what will save them is a better understanding of their natural state
The Legacy of America’s Largest Forest Fire
A 1910 wildfire that raged across three Western states helped advance the nation’s conservation efforts
Sitka
A tradition-rich village lies at the doorstep of a vast Alaskan wilderness
World View
Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth
Monkey in the Middle
Blamed for destroying one of North Africa's most important forests, Morocco's Barbary macaques struggle to survive
The Object at Hand
From a forest that flourished 207 million years ago, the Sherman Logs bear stony witness to a general's curiosity--and life in an age gone by
The Deep-Sea Floor Rivals Rain Forests in Diversity of Life
Blue luminescence and marine snow define a world where millions of species of worms and other invertebrates live out their lives
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