Walk into any woods in New England (or the world) and you are bound to find standing dead trees. Depending upon where you live and how you view natural ecosystems these can be viewed either as ...

In this 3 On Your Side follow-up, falling, decaying trees are becoming too close for comfort.

Thousands of acres of trees have been killed by the southern pine beetle in the 10 years since they arrived in Suffolk County, foresters say, heightening the risk of wildfires by generating heavy fuel ...

Standing dead trees in Yellowstone National Park are wildfires waiting to happen, according to a team of researchers that recently took stock of the park’s forested areas. There are high levels of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Twenty years after the 2002 McNally fire scorched the Sierra, the forest shows dramatic recovery. Dead trees and ...

Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available aerial imagery using methods developed by researchers from the University ...