Understanding the drivers of the high diversity in tropical forests has been a major question since Darwin and Wallace visited tropical forestsand even before, Smithsonian co-author Scott Miller writes, We found that higher tropical tree diversity explains why there are more leaf-eating insects in tropical than in temperate forests.
David Mercker with University of Tennessee Forestry shares some interesting information with us on forest certification:
The concept of forest certification has grown as a tool to foster sustainable forest management. It began on the global scale in the 1980s and moved rapidly to the United States.
Carin Smaller on the collapse of the WTO's Doha Round, Michael Sligh from Rural Advancement Foundation International and Mark Muller on Mississippi River navigation.
The Department of Natural Resources is battling an invasive plant growing near Blue Mounds in an attempt to save an important part of Wisconsin heritage.
And some of those behind the fight are the same people who planted the enemy there in the first place, WISC-TV reported.
A locally crafted, congressionally endorsed plan to protect more than 40,000 acres north of Yosemite could be a case study in how a divided Congress handles wilderness.
It's called compromise, and it can be a delicate affair.
Heavy rain and lightning forced firefighters from the ridges where they were battling a cluster of wildfires east of Los Angeles, authorities said Monday.
Fire officials were hoping the storms would soak the flames rather than produce dry lightning in the San Bernardino Mountains.
The morning fog still hid the sun when Josh Horky and Jamie Johnson pulled into a parking lot above the Brule River.
Pulling on vests and grabbing their gear, the pair headed down a wooded trail leading toward the sound of rushing water.
The Cavity Lake fire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness blowdown grew more complex Tuesday, triggering the U.S. Forest Service to call for a nationally managed Type 1 fire team -- the most experienced kind of firefighting group available.
