LiveScience Topics: Forests

More Forests News and Information

• FAQ: The Science and History of Wildfires

  Learn what's behind the current blazes in Southern California.

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  Rap Music Brings Science to Urban Youth

  I realized I could use rap music to connect urban kids with forests.

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  Guam's Birds Gone: Can Forest Survive?

  Can forests that have lost all of their birds still function normally?

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  Tree Deaths Double in Western U.S. Forests

  Monitoring of forest plots finds western tree death rates have doubled, likely due to regional warming.

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  Amazon Deforestation: Earth's Heart and Lungs Dismembered

  The demand for beef means large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon are being bulldozed,but the government is making changes.

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  Gremlins Thought Extinct, Found After 85 Years

  The primates were lurking in a cloud forest in Indonesia.

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  Lost Civilization of the Amazon Rainforest

  Retracing an ill-fated 1542 Spanish expedition, and the mysterious writings of their traveling priest which detail a thriving network of cities. Show airs Thursday, Nov. 20 at 9PM ET/PT

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  Wise Elephants Fear Roads

  Forest elephants are steering clear of Africa roads where poaching is rampant.

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  New Rules Advised for Hunting Gorillas, 'Bushmeat'

  The bushmeat issue has become a vexing one.

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  Scientists Learn How Nemo Finds His Way Home

  How does the orange clownfish — aka Nemo from the movie "Finding Nemo" — really find its way home?

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  Economist Hedges Bets on Wildfires in California

  Many think letting a fire destroy many homes hurts the welfare of Californians and dampens the economy. But how do we save people, homes, and firefighters?

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  Newfound Monkey Could Disappear Soon

  A monkey species in Tanzania is threatened with extinction, say scientists.

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  Sloths are Not Total Sloths

  Sloth siestas are much shorter than commonly believed.

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  Loggers Destroying Monarch's Mexico Home

  Satellite photos show illegal logging in Monarch butterfly habitat.

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  Can a Wildfire Ever Put Itself Out?

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  Elephants Slaughtered along 'Highways of Death'

  Roads penetrating into the heart of Africa’s jungles are making it easier for ivory poachers to kill large numbers of forest elephants, a new study finds.

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  France Used to Be a Jungle

  Analysis of ancient amber indicates France once covered by tropical jungle.

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  New Species Found in Mysteriously Diverse Jungle

  An expedition into New Guinea turns up a motherlode of new species.

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  Incredible Batch of Rare and New Species Discovered

  An expedition to Ghana yielded amazing finds, including eight new katydid species.

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  Drought Exacerbates Carbon Dioxide Problem

  Droughts hamper carbon sinks, let carbon dioxide accumulate in atmosphere.

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  Whatever Happened to Biodiesel?

  Some fuels from vegetable oil are environmentally better than others.