Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health.

Peru is one of the countries with the largest tropical forest areas in the world. The tree cover extent of the country in 2020 was almost 76.5 million hectares which makes up almost 60% of its total ...

Tongass National Forest encompasses 17 million acres and is home to bald eagles, salmon, and bears. Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - While it’s commonly known that approximately 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, the existence of forests is just as equally important. Ranging from being the natural ...

Mangrove forests play an essential role in combating climate change and protecting coastal communities. Mangrove forests grow in the areas of the low-oxygen soil where the water moves slowly to ...

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Johannesburg’s claim to be the world’s largest man-made or urban forest is popular, but there is no reliable evidence to ...

Just over a year ago, guest columnist, Kathleen Williams, founder of the TennGreen Land Conservancy, challenged our mayoral candidates to “champion the environment” through the implementation of ...

Smoke rises from a wildfire in the hills of Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Thursday. Photo by Jiji Press/EPA-EFE Feb. 28 (UPI) --Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined ...

Another big step in the transformation of the core of Lake County’s largest forest preserve will involve construction of a nature play area as a main feature. Official approval of a $1.23 million ...

A forest fire that has been burning in Wharton State Forest in Burlington County since the Fourth of July was started by fireworks, state officials said Sunday. The wildfire, which has grown to 4,000 ...