Every October, Penny Chamberlain remembers the ecology club students who dressed up as mushrooms and forest trolls for the Halloween walks at Thorn Creek in Park Forest. Chamberlain, who recently ...

The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last remnants of the Tamaulipan thorn forest, a dense mosaic of at least 1,200 plants. They once covered more than 1 million acres on both sides of ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jon Dale’s love affair with birds began when he was about 10 and traded his BB gun for a pair of binoculars.

Storms, fires, bark beetles: Many forests around the world are increasingly affected by these and other natural disturbances. It is common practice to eliminate the consequences of these disturbances ...