Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree ...

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

Phosphorus is essential for plant growth and ecosystem productivity. In many natural forests, plants rely on soil microbes to release bioavailable phosphorus from organic matter. The PhoD gene, which ...

A research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has clarified how deposited ...

China set out to stop its deserts from swallowing farms and cities by planting trees on a scale the planet had never seen.

A massive afforestation effort in China has transformed the Taklamakan Desert into a carbon sink, demonstrating the potential ...

The Khorthali Community Forest User Group in Dolakha, central Nepal, produced 1,189 cubic meters (42,000 cubic feet) of ...

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

From Seed: If you want to start skeleton flowers from seeds, cold-stratification is necessary. The simplest method is to sow ...

A previously unknown genus of tiny insect-like springtails has been discovered in China, revealing hidden biodiversity ...

The global movement against single-use plastics has triggered a significant transformation in the disposable tableware ...

It's hard not to despair about the state of the world today, but here are five reasons to be a little bit hopeful, says Fred ...