Germany is losing its forests — and fast. In the central Harz region, over 90% of spruce trees are dead or dying because of climate change and pests. But there may be a silver lining to these ...

Loosely translated as "solitude of the forest", waldeinsamkeit is seeing a post-pandemic renaissance in Germany. Everybody is at it in Germany. They're doing it in the trees in the Black Forest ...

Germany’s spruce forests date back to the reforestation efforts of the 19th and 20th century, when degraded woodlands were restocked with this fast-growing tree species.

Germany's dense green spruce forests are being decimated by parasites and climate change. It's unclear if planting different kinds of trees would help stop the decline.

Less than an hour from the COP23 summit in Bonn lies an example of Germany’s dirty environmental secret: An ancient forest that is being razed by a coal mine.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s forests — long a source of pride and national identity — are feeling the heat. A second consecutive year of unusually dry and warm weather has left swaths of dead ...

ODER-SPREE, Germany — In the Brandenburg forest, a bounding 4-year-old black Belgian shepherd named Uschi picks up a scent. Wearing a neon high-visibility jacket, she stops by an overturned tree ...

In Germany, forests were regularly clear-cut, poisoned with herbicides such as 2, 4, 5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (an active ingredient in Agent Orange), and then replanted with nonnative conifers.

BERLIN – Germany’s forests – long a source of pride and national identity – are feeling the heat. A second consecutive year of unusually dry and warm weather has left swaths of dead and ...