"When people think of trees, they see them as sources of oxygen and shade, as water purifiers and providers of wood, but no ...

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 University shows that most native forest plants are ...

For Nuno Espirito Santo, the moment to celebrate the remarkable achievements of this season will come after the final whistle, on the final day, when his Nottingham Forest side have faced Chelsea at ...

Efforts to improve biodiversity in Europe's woodlands will help them better withstand the stresses of climate change. In a vast sandy pine forest bordering the Atlantic Ocean in south-west France, an ...

Forests blanket nearly a third of our planet. They shape-shift from steaming tropical rainforests to frozen taiga and dry, sun-baked deciduous woodlands. A few of these places are legendary. The ...

An overlooked and long-neglected type of forest has vast capacity to rebound, enhancing species diversity and resilience to climate change, according to an international team of forest scientists.

– A forest data collection framework, combining standardised data, for which the Commission will take the lead role and provide a cost-effective service from Earth observation (Copernicus), with ...

While warming is pushing some European vegetation north, toward cooler weather, a new study finds that for many forest plants, there is a much greater pull westward. Researchers say these plants are ...

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 that there was far more open and semi-open ...

Europe's forest area is expanding by half a million hectares a year, enough to cover Belgium in six years or Switzerland in eight, according to a joint report of the Food and Agriculture Organization ...