Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An ...

Check out our complete 99 Nights in the Forest Christmas Light guide, and learn how you can get and use them to decorate ...

Hiring freezes and workforce reductions risk making recreational trails and bridges unusable on national forests, an internal ...

June 21, 2025 In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster ... 83% of Earth’s Climate-Critical ...

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for coastal woodlands ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...

Normally, it's illegal to chop down a tree in a national forest. This month, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is all for it—provided you get yourself a Forest Service-issued permit first.

“Nature deficit disorder” is a modern affliction. With more people living in cities, working in high-rise office buildings, and becoming addicted to their innumerable electronic devices, many of us ...

A quiet stretch of forest near Ithaca will soon open the door to more public land and protected water. The Finger Lakes Land Trust has purchased 108 acres in the town of Dryden that border Yellow Barn ...