Because of their importance to life on Earth, forests have gained the nickname "lungs of the planet" for their role in ...

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring ...

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would ... Without fungi to aid in decomposition, all life in the forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter.

The loss in forest area threatens human prosperity ... It also advocates combating desertification by 2030 and restoring land affected by desertification, drought and floods. To protect biodiversity, ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

The United Nations aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt ...

All sloths are built for life in the treetops ... couldn't be clumsier on land, sloths are surprisingly good swimmers. They sometimes fall directly from rain forest trees into rivers and stroke ...

We have opened a woodland trail on the Coleraine campus. This biodiversity management process saw the creation of new forest paths linked to existing campus footpaths and offers short, medium and long ...

A 27-acre property in Hague is now permanently protected. The Lake George Land Conservancy protected what’s known as the Forest Friends Mile. The property stretches one mile along State Route 9N ...

Life on Earth might have started billions of years ago on land, not in the sea, according to a new study. A group of researchers found that the red rocks of the Pilbarra in Western Australia ...