The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...

A 700-year-old forest lies within sight of North America’s busiest highway, according to one biologist. Surprisingly, many tiny ancient forests like it are under our noses, but they’re in danger of ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the ...

In a picturesque corner of England, along dramatic sandstone cliffs, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized ...

Redwood Parks Conservancy kicked off its end-of-year giving campaign "Protect the Redwoods Together" just in time for Giving ...

Most of us associate sinkholes with frightening abysses, but in China, they’re considered “heavenly” for good reason. Far from being mouths of doom, a number of these have been discovered containing ...

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Supporters of the Humbug Marsh Unit in Gibraltar celebrated the induction of the area into the Old-Growth Forest Network. Credit: Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Detroit River ...

A recent Ph.D. graduate's excavation of an ancient forest near Strahan in western Tasmania exceeded expectations with the discovery of new plant species. Fossils were discovered during a 2020 ...

The fossilized remains of Whitebark pine trees found beneath a melting ice patch in the Yellowstone region were once part of an ancient forest that thrived for centuries before disappearing, ...