Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Board of Forestry voted Thursday to move forward with a controversial plan that would scale back logging on 640,000 ...

Bees are generally associated with flowering meadows rather than with dense forests. Woodland, however, is considered the original habitat of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera), as it offers ...

Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what's not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back naturally. Our new research explored the benefits of ...

By Basten Gokkon In their latest study, a group of researchers from Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. find that heath forests (locally known as kerangas) span 16,586 square kilometers (6,400 square ...

Under U.S. President Donald Trump's second administration, federal agencies have shrunk the habitat requirement for grizzly bears from 2,500 acres to 1 acre. The U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and ...

Elephants straying out of Afi River Forest Reserve in the Nigerian state of Cross River are reportedly damaging surrounding farms. This uptick in human-wildlife conflict comes as satellite data show ...

Tropical forest birds, which tend to have wings that are short and round relative to their body length and shape, are more sensitive to habitat fragmentation than the long-, slender-winged species ...

Nigeria’s Cross River state, famed for its gorillas, chimpanzees, drill monkeys and forest elephants, is also part of an ecological region known to harbor the greatest diversity of dragonflies and ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...