Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species displace native trees.…

Cattle herds are driving lions and other wildlife away from their habitats in Kenya, even though herders enclose their livestock at night when…

In just a few decades, the climate in many of the world’s forests will be so changed that many trees will have difficulty surviving. For example, in…

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe’s forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus…

In India, tigers haven’t just survived − they’re making a comeback. Despite a growing population and increasing pressure on their habitats, the number…

A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were in abundance in Europe’s temperate forests before modern humans…

Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years. This conclusion comes from…

New large-scale study shows that the idea of native animals being better for the local ecosystem than similar introduced species is wrong. What…

For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past…

For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows…