The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has maps of major world forests. These maps represent current global forest cover.

NEW DELHI: A new study by IIT Gandhinagar has revealed a disturbing shift in India’s flash flood geography, warning that climate change is driving the emergence of new flood-prone regions in ...

The Black Heritage Tree Project, working in partnership with the Crucian Heritage and Nature Tourism (CHANT), aims to map culturally significant trees that stood witness to important moments in ...

A peer‑reviewed study of 78 floods finds 43% of North Carolina buildings that took on water over the past two decades sit outside FEMA’s hazard zones, exposing insurance gaps and urging better ...

Scientists are studying old growth forests in the Adirondack and Catskill forest preserves and measuring how much carbon is ...

Imagine two people talking over a walkie-talkie set. Successful communication depends on them being tuned to the same frequency. If others try to communicate nearby, interference can occur, and ...

Probiotics are emerging tools used by neonatal intensive care units to promote healthy outcomes and prevent intestinal diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis. Approximately one in ten of the ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

The Davis Book Menders get plenty of ordinary repair jobs, like fixing torn pages or tattered covers, but sometimes the damage is unusual — like books that display tire treads, or that show signs of ...

Maps show the vast range of the various spruce tree species that can be found throughout North America.