By Rhett Ayers Butler [( A deceptively simple question underlies many global environmental policies: where, exactly, are the world’s forests? A new study suggests the answer depends heavily on which ...

Across the planet, forests are no longer the relatively stable backdrops they once seemed. From the Amazon to the Arctic, species are shuffling, tree mortality is spiking and fire seasons are ...

For its first art exhibition of the year, the World Forestry Center is tackling a subject increasingly terrifying to Oregonians: wildfires. The museum is currently exhibiting State of the Forest, ...

Series offers six free community days at the Discovery Museum throughout the year to thank the public for six decades of support and engagement.

Despite the urgency behind global pledges to stop cutting down trees and damaging forests, the world lost tens of millions of acres of woodlands in 2022, veering well off track from meeting targets to ...

Portland, OR — World Forestry Center is committed to practices and programs that elevate diverse voices, promote inclusiveness, and advance equity within our organization and across our community. “We ...

Carbon sinks and sources in global forests (Pg C year-1) expressed as the mean annual rate across the full three-decadal period 1990 to 2019. Positive values represent carbon sinks, while negative ...

This post comes to PBS Nature from World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF and Nature are collaborating on a series of blog posts from WWF conservation scientists that will share the stories and motivations ...