Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier...
Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees’ ability to store large quantities of carbon...
Climate change will move and reduce the land suitable for growing food and timber, putting the production of these 2 vital resources into direct...
Cambridge researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve how forests are monitored. Associate Professor Dr Emily Lines and Research...
The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and...
The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew...
Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, and extreme weather affecting forest management.
Foresters across the mountainous northeastern Indian state of Nagaland will help roll out a unique programme of environmental education, co-developed...
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional...
Comprehensive scientific report shows progress and effects on climate, nature and people.
Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.
Flora Donald is a PhD candidate who splits her time between the Department of Plant Sciences and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Here, she...