The Sapling app rewards users with credits for tasks completed, left. The credits are used to purchase trees used in reforestation projects. (Sapling Images) Two high schoolers who became friends ...

The backbone of forests is under threat The most threatened species are often slow-growing specialists, as Svenning describes them. These are trees with thick leaves, dense wood, and long lifespans, ...

Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...

Professor Jens-Christian Svenning with a specimen of the species Aspidosperma polyneuron in Argentina. The tree is an example of one of the “slow” species that are declining despite their high ...