The Pensacola News Journal is working with high schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa County to put their top students in the ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than ...

In the forests of the southeastern United States, dense tree cover dominates most landscapes. That's why the Appalachian Trail is sometimes nicknamed "The Green Tunnel." But avid hikers know that ...

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park sits right there in Vantage, a tiny town that most people blow past on their way to ...

Maddie Yang explains the changes humans can make to create cities and neighborhoods that benefit the environment rather than ...

The tropical forests of the Amazon and Andes are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet, but across both regions, changes in climate and landscape conditions are driving a shift in the ...

A 50-year-old planting method from Japan is jump-starting native forest ecosystems in small plots, from schoolyards to parking lots.

New 3D scans of tropical rainforests give scientists better data on forest biomass, boosting carbon tracking and satellite ...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. More fires are burning at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where homes and other buildings meet the natural ...

A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.

For decades, wilderness lands have been left largely unaltered by human activity. But those places are still changing, and ...

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