The Francis Beidler forest land near the Four Holes Swamp could be under threat by an expansion of a right-of-way by ...

Scientists have just released photos of the incredible 298 million year old buried forest that was recently found below a coal mine in Yuda, China. The extensive tree and plant fossils that were ...

The 13-foot-tall trees were tightly packed into this 385-million-year-old forest. Here's a look at the fossilized remains of the sprawling ecosystem.

The 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest in western Germany is under threat. The country's biggest power company, RWE, has been clearing the ancient natural resource to make room for coal mining.

There’s not a single, agreed upon definition of an old-growth forest; the term was first used by ecologists in the 1970s describing forests that are at least 150 years old with a diverse ...

The Forest Service mature and old-growth forest inventory maps were created at what’s called a “fireshed” scale. Firesheds are 250,000 acres each, or roughly 390 square miles.

Ask Joan Maloof for a definition of an “old-growth forest,” an area of ancient trees undisturbed by humans and overtaken by nature, and she will not be able to provide a satisfying answer ...

Scientists have uncovered a 280-million-year-old fossilized forest in Antarctica, buried beneath layers of ice! He won ‘America’s Got Talent,’ but he’s still working as a school janitor ...

Belden Forest is considered an old-growth forest, as it includes a large stand of old eastern white pines deep within it, with some cores showing them to be more than 150 years old, according to ...

Old trees are back in the spotlight with the release of a U.S. Forest Service plan to preserve old-growth forests. The plan follows a directive by President Joe Biden in April 2022 to protect ...