Researchers are urging Yellowstone officials to invest in greater protection after the findings of a new report ...

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

Rising waters and illicit logging are killing the trees in the Sundarbans ... in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was when the body of a long-dead friend surfaced near ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient whitebark pine trees preserved for almost 6,000 years in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains. This discovery offers crucial insights into historical climate patterns and ...

Nate left before dawn on this day in January with his rifle and machete to get an early start on the two-hour trek to the old-growth forest ... and members of the National Geographic Society ...

Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... As the men climbed a sandy bank, they encountered a tree with the carved letters “C R O.” This was, the governor ...

Crops and trees were cultivated in an area known as Beidha to the north of Petra. And remnants of meals have also revealed that the people of Petra ate fish imported from the Dead Sea. Petra’s ...

Today many pilgrims come to this grove of olive trees outside the walls of Jerusalem ... This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

We hold trees in our imagination, where they grow in strange, wonderful ways in forests inhabited by fantasy and also by our fears. In fable and legend, a forest shelters spirits, witches ...