The tall, slender beech trees with their dark green, dense crowns – the very symbol of the temperate forests in Europe – may have disappear from many landscapes by the turn of the next century. Today, ...

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

Forest cover and natural vegetation help mitigate several environmental challenges, like global warming, heat waves, air and water pollution, floods, soil erosion and desertification. But how are ...