The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and agricultural terraces. The regional chiefdom society also had a distinctive ...

Forests aren’t keeping up with today’s climate chaos. While temperatures soar within decades, tree populations take 100 to 200 years to shift in response. A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and ...

Graduate students in Michigan Tech's Forest Science PhD program research everything from forest vegetation dynamics, intensive silviculture, bioinformatics programming, and applied genetics to natural ...

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Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke. Birchenko and her ...

Science: Forest Pearl. 1 minute read. TIME. March 2, 1942 12:00 AM GMT-4. A perfect pearl, formed not in an oyster but in a coconut, was exhibitedlast week in Florida by Botanist David Fairchild.

Why preserving old-growth forests is a complex task. Conservation projects save more than just trees, but different forests require very different caretaking strategies.

Trees haven’t grown on the Falkland Islands for thousands of years. But tree trunks and branches preserved in peat suggest the islands were once home to a forest.

If you go out in a coniferous forest in the pouring rain, you actually don’t necessarily get that wet, because the trees act like big umbrellas. Or if it’s really hot, a forest or a woodland could be ...

SCIENCE SUNDAY: Forest of Illusions. Published: Jan. 27, 2023 at 10:57 AM EST | Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 9:00 AM EST Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon checks out an exhibit in ...

The best Halloween decorations sometimes come directly from nature. Intricate spider webs, enormous pumpkins, and a fungus that might stop you dead in your tracks.Commonly called dead man’s ...