Oregon Is Burning Trees in Order to Save Them
Sudden oak death, rampant in California, is spreading to the north, leaving the forest service with a tough option: Send them up in smoke. ..
Sudden oak death, rampant in California, is spreading to the north, leaving the forest service with a tough option: Send them up in smoke. ..
Researchers haven’t pinned down exactly what’s behind the rise of the deadly fungal disease. But one thing is nearly certain: Climate change plays ..
Local evidence of the cataclysm has literally washed away over the years. But Oregon’s Douglas firs may have recorded clues deep in their tree rings. ..
For her new book, Devi Lockwood traveled around the world gathering stories of how people are being directly affected by a warming planet. ..
‘Zombie’ purple urchins have obliterated West Coast kelp forests with their insatiable appetites. Can they be stopped? ..
From glasswing butterflies to vanishing octopuses, evolution sometimes paints with colors that aren’t there. ..
Scientists have attached dosimeters to the reptiles so they can serve as living “bioindicators” to gauge contamination levels near the shuttered nuclear ..
People along the desert’s border are building a kind of circular plot called a tolou keur to keep the soil fertile and to slow desertification. ..
A new paper argues that the rise of artificial intelligence in agriculture could be the best—or worst—innovation for our environment. ..
An invasive insect called the woolly adelgid is eating the Northeast’s forests alive. So some researchers are calling in hungry silver flies. ..