Non-native conifers from the Northern Hemisphere grow faster and are more drought resistant and resilient in the Southern Hemisphere, where they seem to escape the growth–stress-tolerance tr...

Pyrography — or the craft of making art with fire — has been around for thousands of years. But a new generation of young artists is making the practice their own.

Why soil scientist Frank Ashwood wants us to love the creatures beneath our feet.

A slowly unfolding native forest crisis is currently occurring in Aotearoa | New Zealand (hereafter New Zealand) because the numbers of deer in many native forests have risen rapidly to unsustainable ...

We want you, New Zealand, to nominate and vote for the greatest trees in the country. It’s not about the biggest or oldest, it’s about trees that play a part in our lives, our history and our future.

How we train the next generation is critical to nature recovery.

Warmer winters mean insect pests like wasps will likely spread further, while weedy plants and rats invade alpine zones, shrinking the refuge for endangered birds.

One of the busiest highways in the western U.S. is I-25, a concrete artery that runs north to south across the state of Colorado, funneling roughly 100,000 cars per day through the fast-growing exurbs...

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 01 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00793-zGlobally, fires in 2025 burned the second-lowest area on record since 2002 and emitted the third-lowest CO2 total. Yet, a third successive year of extreme wildfire emissions prevailed in Canada, and catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, South Korea and Europe killed over 90 people and forced over 300,000 evacuations.

Background. Grasses significantly influence bushfire behaviour in fire-prone landscapes, yet their contribution to flammability under changing climate and

A dry winter in some parts of Australia is expected to make bushfire conditions "tricky" by spring.

DOC scientist, Elaine Murphy, talks about a new sausage bait she's developed to target stoats, and why she's a big believer in Predator Free 2050.

The passage of SB 840 and recent proposed amendments to the state's Cap-and-Invest program leave critical wildfire resilience funding, and funding for other policy priorities, at risk of disappearing.

The Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP) of Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law &.....

Globally there has been a burgeoning consensus that drawing from Indigenous knowledge in environmental management improves outcomes. Over the past two decades, in Aotearoa | New Zealand there has been...

Wildfires are projected to increase in severity and frequency in dryland ecosystems due to climate change. To predict how plant communities will respond to these changes in wildfire patterns, it is v....

Struggling to remember why you picked a career in science? Here are some heart-warming tales to jog your memory.

Struggling to remember why you picked a career in science? Here are some heart-warming tales to jog your memory.