Ireland has long been known as a country with many fields but very few trees. For years, most forests were filled with just one type of tree, often planted only for cutting and selling wood. These ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ...

Frédéric Demeuse explores increasingly rare, remote pockets of nature in his ongoing series 'Forgotten Places.' ...

Guarding lakes and forests from poachers, local communities in Brazil deliver massive conservation benefits—at less than $1 ...

Humans first began foraging for food some 12,000 years ago, long before they developed agricultural tools that overshadowed ...

Replaceable furniture may be a modern convenience, but is it worth it? Woodworkers in and around Monroe County, who focus on ...

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each ...

Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in ...