Though the settlers used trees for shelter, barns, fences and heat, they saw trees as one of their greatest enemies when it came to growing crops needed for their survival. The first people settling ...

In 'We Are the Fruits of the Forest,' Cambodian docmaker Rithy Panh turns his focus to the indigenous Bunong people.

Doctors are looking to a remedy with ancient origins to treat modern stress and burnout. I joined them to see how it works.

A new book challenges us to work together as a community to grant sovereignty to forests and the animals who live there.

If you're planning a trip to Redwood National Forest, these are the animal species you're most likely to encounter ...

You've probably seen many unusual places in the world. Some of them have a cool color, form, others have a unique shape. Like a cool forest in Japan. Groups of Japanese cedar trees swell towards the ...

“Biodiversity is much higher in natural ecosystems than in the city,” said Brand, and that includes the fungi living in the soils. Bashian-Victoroff collected soil for the new experiment from Bole ...

To protect new tree growth from deer, Moss Bank Park in Bath, NY built "slash walls" using felled hemlock trees. Slash walls are massive barriers of logs and branches that prevent deer from eating ...

Lightning-sparked flames raced through a roughly 3,000-acre tract of old-growth forest in the central Sierra Nevada during the Garnet Fire in September. Before this year, the Teakettle Experimental ...

The ancient art of bonsai may look deceptively simple, but its practice requires care, contemplation, and consistency over long periods of time—especially if you’re growing an entire miniature forest, ...

Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...