The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...

A 700-year-old forest lies within sight of North America’s busiest highway, according to one biologist. Surprisingly, many tiny ancient forests like it are under our noses, but they’re in danger of ...

In a picturesque corner of England, along dramatic sandstone cliffs, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized ...

Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the ...

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Most of us associate sinkholes with frightening abysses, but in China, they’re considered “heavenly” for good reason. Far from being mouths of doom, a number of these have been discovered containing ...

Supporters of the Humbug Marsh Unit in Gibraltar celebrated the induction of the area into the Old-Growth Forest Network. Credit: Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Detroit River ...

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WARSAW, Poland — Poland broke international law by drastically increasing logging in one of Europe’s last primeval woodlands, which is home to endangered animal species, an official of the European ...

A recent Ph.D. graduate's excavation of an ancient forest near Strahan in western Tasmania exceeded expectations with the discovery of new plant species. Fossils were discovered during a 2020 ...

An Alabama legislator is championing an unconventional cause — the push to grant federal protection as a National Marine Sanctuary to an ancient forest thriving beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, ...