Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...

As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is ...

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After running dry, the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona is coming back to life. But restoration still faces challenges.

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Like farmland in Australia, native forests struggle with drought and flooding, so future management decisions need more sophisticated systems to monitor and manage their water needs. A new study aims ...

A 19-year-old was accused of lighting a bonfire and leaving before it was extinguished, sparking one of the largest blazes in ...

Grass fires burn far more American homes each year than forest fires. In southern Arizona, communities fight fires that never ...

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year. Community ...

As many as 80 percent of homes lost to wildfires could have been saved if owners had followed some advice. While Florida ...

You might think your plant worries are over if you nursed the landscape through last summer’s dry heat and this winter’s cold with limited damage. That could be true, but some of the time ...

In the remote Zuni Mountains of northwestern New Mexico, Brian Leddy owns an historic cabin on land he leases from the U.S. Forest Service. There should still be snow and mud under the tall pines.