How the Charter of the Forest (Carta Foresta) set forth the idea of the commons and managed to survive for over 750 years despite being under attack.

Humans have long recognized the song of trees. One biologist argues that listening to forests again can spark a new ecological consciousness, naturally.

The world’s forests are being criss-crossed by roads and clearings, and as a result many backboned animals are becoming less abundant.

New Zealand's next prime minister Jacinda Ardern has set ambitious environmental policies to confront a warming planet. "I do anticipate that we will be a government, as I said during the campaign, that will be absolutely focused on the challenge of climate change," said Ardern, whose Labour party has signed a coalition agreement with the New Zealand First party.

Rita Leistner’s latest exhibition captures the intensity of tree planting.

The urgent question: Can government agents finally prove that enough trees come from illegal logging sites in Peru to stop shipments into the US?

The country lost most of its trees long ago. Despite years of replanting, it isn’t making much progress.

NASA's OCO-2 satellite has detected a dramatic spike in global atmospheric carbon dioxide, and overheated tropical forests are partly to blame.

For the past few years, Patrik Svedberg has been taking photos of a beautiful Swedish tree he dubbed The Broccoli Tree.

The world’s tropical forests are so degraded they have become a source rather than a sink of carbon emissions, according to a new study that highlights the urgent need to protect and restore the Amazon and similar regions. Researchers found that forest areas in South America, Africa and Asia – which have until recently played a key role in absorbing greenhouse gases – are now releasing 425 teragrams of carbon annually, which is more than all the traffic in the United States.

A palm oil company is continuing to clear forest in a fast-diminishing elephant habitat in Indonesia’s Leuser ecosystem despite being the subject of two reports into illegal deforestation, according to a prominent environmental organisation.

According to the national American Forests bent trees are a clear Native American trail markers.

After years in critical exile, the onetime poster boy for slacker filmmaking reinvents himself for an era of narrowcast fame.

The quest to restore the American elm has been underway for more than 50 years. Now success is closer than ever.

Sunrise through steam from thermal features along the shore of Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.

A scientific debate is intensifying over whether too much money and too many lives are lost fighting forest fires.

The European Court of Justice had ordered a stop to logging in Bialowieza Forest, a Unesco World Heritage site.

It's a cost-effective option for carbon management.