Here’s how it works. Humans are destroying forests all over the world in a process called deforestation. Forests are cleared to make space for agriculture, and so humans can use the wood to make ...

After a forest is logged, that land is often re-planted with new saplings. Within a few decades, those trees will have grown pretty big, and the forest will look much like a forest once again ...

Not long ago, the forests that covered most of the island were largely intact. But in recent decades, the scale of logging has intensified, and more areas of harvested forest have been converted ...

The results indicate that global boreal forests might change to a more open type, with trees covering about 30%–50% of the area. "This is very different from what we see now, which includes both ...