Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.

Trees may be more resilient to future dry spells than scientists first thought.

Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.

A fire scientists offers a six-point strategy for preventing wildfires and living safely in flammable landscapes.

Restoring western forests – thinning out small trees and dead wood – is an important strategy for reducing the risk of massive wildfires. But these projects aren't fast, easy or cheap.

Conservation or copper? A proposed mine in northern Minnesota pits industrial jobs against a thriving outdoor economy.

Local adaptation allows plants and animals to thrive in a diversity of places. Sometimes adaptation sharpens patterns of where organisms live, but 85% of the time, it creates a more homogeneous world.

Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.

As in humans, environmental changes provoked chimpanzees to develop a diverse range of behaviours.