A friend of mine once rode his bicycle from the coast of Washington state across the country to Maine. In that long journey he crossed through four different biomes and ...

Harrison Lake, nestled in the heart of British Columbia, Canada, stretches for over 60 km, offering a tranquil escape surrounded by mountains, dense coniferous forests, and natural hot springs. This ...

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny ...

Soils surrounding large, ancient alerce trees in Chile accumulate a disproportionately high diversity of fungi, which help store more carbon and make the entire forest healthier, suggesting that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that our warming atmosphere has resulted in extreme weather all over the world, but there's also a less noticeable ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study has mapped lowland heath forests (kerangas) in Indonesian Borneo, revealing major changes in their extent and limited formal protection ...

The Gifford Fire in California's Los Padres National Forest has burned over 72,000 acres, injured three people, and threatens nearly 900 structures. The fire is currently 7% contained, and officials ...

Research partners Sara Germain and Tucker Furniss aren’t in danger of missing the forest for the trees—or the trees for the forest. Instead, they’re interested in the connections between individual ...

Jay R. Malcolm has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Wahkohtowin Development GP Inc. (WDGP). The research also benefited from research on ...

An international study led by the University of Liège proposes a new map of the potential for natural vegetation on Earth, far beyond forests. By incorporating the role of fire and herbivores, ...

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