The wretched worm that ravages spruce and fir trees and leaves a brownish mess in its wake seems to be everywhere one looks this summer, while options for trying to ...

The US and Canada are fighting about lumber once again. The neighbors have feuded over “softwood” lumber from fast-growing ...

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

A new government model to estimate peatland emissions and their impact on climate change could provide a new perspective on ...

As wildfires become more frequent and intense across Canada, fire officials are seeing stark differences between northwestern ...

In the peatlands, research has shown wildfires speed up permafrost melt, which in turn releases carbon, according to David ...

David Butterworth and Gill Wilson-Butterworth made a big decision recently, and local watershed groups are calling it a win-win. The P.E.I. couple turned over part of their land for use by butterflies ...

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the ...

Esk Sunset maple (Acer pseudoplatanus Esk Sunset), known commonly as Eskimo Sunset, originated from New Zealand and grows ...

It felt good to think freely, to give myself space and time to breathe and see and smell and feel and hear, without prompts ...

Streets and intersections temporarily became rivers after a storm caused flash flooding across the city on Sunday evening.

My daughter and I wended our way through the streets of our West Philly neighborhood, shunted block after block by fire department barricades. We were heading from a playground, where we had started ...