Biodiversity is the bedrock of resilience, and kelp forests show why.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mau Forest in Kenya is one of the region's most important natural resources. Yet despite this, deforestation is happening ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...

12 May 2026 - Forests cover nearly one-third of our earth and sustain billions of lives. Yet, they’re disappearing rapidly, putting our natural world and economy at risk. The new Global Forest Goals ...

A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams from Rhizocore Technologies are collecting samples of fungi from around ...

In 2024, the world lost 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary rainforest, the highest level of loss in at least two decades. That’s nearly double the destruction recorded in 2023. Fires were the ...

EUREKA, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 19 : Barren hillsides on forest lands near Headwaters Forest (CA) are stripped of trees and harvested by loggers, December 19, 1998 in Eureka, California. (Photo by Getty ...

Longer, hotter, drier stretches of fire weather make fires more likely. Climate change is making severe fire weather more common around the world, raising the chances of worsened forest fire seasons, ...

Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, ...

Forests occupy one third of the total land area of the Earth and hold around 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that nearly one third of the global population depends ...

Australia’s tropical forests are the world’s first to flip a worrisome switch. The forests are now putting more carbon into the atmosphere than they are taking out, researchers report in the Oct. 16 ...

Russia has the largest forest area in the world, accounting for nearly 20% of Earth's total forest cover. From Siberia's taiga to vast untouched wilderness, here's why Russia leads the world in ...