Temperate rainforests are among the rarest habitats on Earth, supporting unique biodiversity and providing vital benefits from climate regulation and natural flood management to supporting human ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. No two Minecraft worlds look alike, but they're all made up of the same elements--Minecraft's many varied biomes. Each biome has something that makes ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Riverside, have investigated how the loss of forest soil gaseous nitrogen (NO, ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --New research suggests Australia's devastating wildfires were unprecedented in their scope. Analysis conducted by scientists at Western Sydney University's Hawkesbury Institute for the ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: Gorges State Park west of Brevard is defined as a temperate rain forest because it gets 80 inches of rain a year ...

Although disturbances such as fire and native insects can contribute to natural dynamics of forest health, exceptional droughts, directly and in combination with other distrubance factors, are pushing ...

Could climate change turn Minnesota into Kansas? Lee E. Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, addressed this question during his presentation on Saturday, Sept.