The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

Imagine stepping into a silent forest where trees have stood for millions of years—yet not a single leaf rustles in the wind.

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it is—but the government wants to be prepared for a real-life version anyhow. The ...

Fenn took a roguish approach to life and to facts. “It doesn’t matter who ... of the opened chest on what appeared to be the forest floor, and a few pictures of Fenn himself in an office ...