It is generally thought that pastures are inhospitable habitats for rain forest organisms. This largely results from (i) using low resolution images when studying fragmented landscapes and (ii) ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...

Across the tropics, primary forests are being degraded and fragmented in rural, suburban and urban settings (DeFries et al., 2010; Gao and Yu, 2014). Urban population growth outpaces rural growth, and ...

The fungal disease affecting ash trees across the world has been estimated to be on course to kill 95 per cent of UK ash trees, and cost the economy up to £15bn. But a glimmer of hope has emerged for ...

1. Savanna ecosystems – defined by the coexistence of trees and grasses – cover more than one-fifth the world's land surface and harbour most of the world's rangelands, livestock and large mammal ...

Mapping over 1.8 billion trees takes time. But with the help of supercomputers and machine learning algorithms, a team of international researchers collaborating with NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Sharing the planet with other living creatures is an avenue the human race has struggled to make peace with. As we continue to burden the Earth with material and inanimate objects, we erase the planet ...

LIFE IS BETTER with trees. Especially if you live in a city, where people and pavement create what’s known as an Urban Heat Island effect, isolated areas that are measurably hotter than surrounding ...