From Santa sightings in Indiana to reindeer walks in Alaska, these festive summer getaways bring holiday cheer to the sunny ...

Bears chasing each other after catching a fish. Image via Unsplash Bears contribute significantly to nutrient cycling within forest ecosystems, acting as natural conduits that transport nutrients ...

Young forests regrowing from land where mature woodlands have been cut down have a key role to play in removing billions of ...

President Donald Trump signed executive orders to effectively slash environmental protections on more than half of the nation ...

Snow banks help plants thrive in the mountains, providing water and nutrients for soil. But as climate change warms the ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

Tucker Terrell, who graduated from App State in May with a bachelor’s degree in geology-environmental geology, far left, ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting. So ...

A large aerial drone flies over the charred remains of Canadian forests devastated by wildfires, bombarding the ground with seed capsules to accelerate reforestation.

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

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