Logging

The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of endangered and threatened species

Out of sight, below the soil's surface, fungi play a vital role in the existence and health of our forests, woodlands, jungles, and prairies.

The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering more than half of the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the president's aim to significantly bolster the U.S. logging industry.

Rotting logs turn out to be vital to forest biodiversity and recycling organic matter

Lyrebirds farm the microhabitat around them to attract small invertebrates. Once the prey grows large enough, these birds feast on them! The post Australian lyrebirds have a hidden skill for farming first appeared on EarthSky.

A government spreadsheet lists thousands of campsites and trails that could shutter for the summer because of federal government staff reductions and budget freezes.

Plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs were ecosystems engineers, profoundly changing their environments by knocking down trees and eating high volumes of vegetation.

'In the last 50 years, we have lost 73 percent of the world's wildlife.'

Many of Interior's offices have changed dramatically over time in response to evolving environmental and cultural values.

Biomass energy subsidies in South Korea and Japan are threatening Southeast Asia's tropical forests, warns a new report by environmental NGOs. Of particular concern is the nascent but rapidly growing woody biomass industry in Indonesia, where rainforests are already being cleared to make wood pellets to be burned for electricity. The report, published in October […]

MANAUS, Brazil, Dec 20 (IPS) - The flow of the igarapé always dropped for three months every year, but now it has been dry for two years in a row, complains Maria Aparecida dos Anjos, looking at the trickle of water that when flooded reaches the stilts of her wooden house, 50 metres away and on a slope of more than 10 metres high.

Ben Crair writes that New Caledonia is home to thousands of species found nowhere else—and to nickel that companies like Tesla desperately need.

There are only about 2,500 of these fun-size pachyderms like Moo Deng left in the wild.

As forestry faces increased uncertainty, Martin Roth's high-tech approach shows the way forward.

Scientists from the Paint Rock Forest Research Center are discovering new species and ecological treasures in a remote valley in northeastern Alabama.

An investigation by Grist and High Country News reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal lands.

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed mostly intact, road development has recently become a critical threat.

Robert Oxarango, a former Boise hotshot crew member in the late '80s and '90s, is no stranger to wildfires, but facing them as a cattle rancher is a different challenge. This year, the Paddock Fire devastated the grass on his Emmett ranch, displacing 350 pairs of calves and their mothers he owns. ...

The western prairie fringed orchid is a rare flowering plant that has declined due to loss of its native prairie habitat