Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. --Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service teamed up to develop the Alien Forest Pest Explorer, an interactive web tool that combines information from multiple sources to ...

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species ...

A growing dominance of fast-growing tree species is reshaping forests worldwide, potentially weakening ecosystem stability, biodiversity and long-term carbon storage, according to a major new global ...