SPECIAL ISSUE: SAVING FORESTS DESPITE SEEING the forest for the trees, Suzanne Simard once faced harsh criticism for her groundbreaking work. The professor of forest ecology at the ...

LOOKING AT THE EARTH FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE… ...

I AM DRAWN TO THE serenity and sheer beauty of pristine nature. Being in it heightens my perceptions and narrows my focus. As I concentrate on the surroundings, an inner stillness ...

VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA IN THIS SECTION Seed Bank Alarm The First Forest Take to the Trees Ghostly Redwoods THE HOLLOWED-OUT TRUNK of the ancient yellow cedar felt like ...

When Suzanne Simard began working in forestry after college, conventional theory held that trees were isolated loners engaged in a cutthroat Darwinian competition for water, sunlig ...

A SURVEYING SLIPUP 140 YEARS AGO spared a patch of old-growth pine forest in northern Minnesota from the saws and axes of the region’s logging boom. Now the trees—the kind that ...

In Chile after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, a team of scientists from U.S. and German research institutions noticed that streams in their valley work site had sped up. It’s known ...

More than two millennia ago, AlUla’s verdant oasis nurtured the growth of sophisticated and innovative cultures. Arabia’s deserts have always been peopled landscapes, rich with ...

For more stories about how to help the planet, go to natgeo.com/planet. As deforestation occurs worldwide at an alarming rate, what could make us care and act? Perhaps spending tim ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA ACROSS A STEEP CANYON, a ghost floats in the darkness—a phantom in this redwood forest, somewhere in California’s Santa Cruz County. We slip-slide ...