A vibrant changing of season by Patricia Lake in Jasper Canada.

The Brazilian environment ministry is proposing the release of 860,000 acres in the National Forest of Jamanxim for agricultural use, mining and logging. The government’s order was a compromise measure after protests from local residents and ecologists who claim that the bill could lead to further deforestation in the Pará area.

Environmentalists are fighting to prevent logging in Bialowieza forest, a Unesco world heritage site, but the Polish government has dismissed their concerns.

It has long been held that plants are essentially non-responsive organisms, but new studies suggest that there may be more to plants than meets the eye. By Micah Hanks.

Biodiversity refers to the variety of all living things on Earth, but people often have very specific ideas of what it means. If you run an online search for images of biodiversity, you are likely to find lots of photos of tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Those ecosystems are invaluable, but biodiversity also exists in many other places. More than half of the people on Earth live in cities, and that number is growing, so it is especially important to understand how biodiversity patterns occur in our man-made environments.

The bill would devastate national forests by gutting endangered species protections, limiting public comment and environmental review and increase logging. By Brett Hart.

In rural Africa, farmers are struggling to feed their families. The market price of the cash crops they depend on is fluctuating wildly on a monthly basis and there are no government subsidies to make up the loss of income. Zac Tchoundjeu is taking a grassroots approach to cutting this chain of poverty: empowering farmers with simple, powerful agroforestry techniques that they can bring back to their communities to improve their yield, market agency, and confidence.

Stefano Boeri Architetti designed the first “Forest City” in China, which is now under construction Liuzhou, Guangxi Province.

An Australian engineer is hoping to use drones to plant 1 billion trees every year to fight an unfolding global catastrophe. Burned or cleared forests release their stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and land restoration experts say technology must play a big part in addressing the problem.

Stone tablets were one of the earliest writing tools used by man before paper. One Japanese entrepreneur now plans to take things full circle by making paper out of stone. Nobuyoshi Yamasaki’s venture TBM Co. makes paper from limestone, a rock it proclaims is "almost inexhaustible." He says it’s the answer to concerns over deforestation and water shortages, with world demand for paper set to double by 2030.

Scientists from IISc Bangalore have hatched a three-year UAV seed-bombing plan, with a goal to turn inaccessible areas into forests.

Mayflies live for a day, humans live a century - if we’re lucky - but what is the oldest living organism on the planet?

The Cook pine has been spread across the world by cultivators, and their efforts have revealed something unusual – the trees always lean towards the equator

A shot from the hike up to the base camp through the autumnal coloured forest below Cerro Torre Mountain one of the most recognisable with it's distinctive pointed peak standing 3128m high.

Architects from around the world show what they can create using bamboo construction in the first International Bamboo Architecture Biennale in China.

Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A book compiles over 270 plates from their publication.

A beetle-and-fungus combo is about to wipe out millions of Southern California trees—and that means people's lives are at stake, too.

Thailand plans to create forests in urban areas to help absorb air pollution and build more green offices. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) Permanent Secretary Wijarn Simachaya said in a seminar on topic of forests in cities and sustainability that the ministry is now pursuing its 20-year plan to increase green areas in the country by 40 percent, compared to 32 percent at present.

He was trying to save the trees in his historic neighborhood, instead the elderly man wound up in handcuffs for losing his cool.

Lincolnshire recently won its 28th consecutive Tree City Award this year because trees, quite simply, are an important priority for village officials, according to Public Works Director Brad Woodbury.