Most American’s don’t realize that forest products are a part of daily life. From buildings, bridges, and paper, to energy, chemicals and even jobs, our society depends on trees to provide for us.

Efforts to test the reintroduction of blight-resistant chestnut seedlings have been underway since 2007, when the American Chestnut Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the University of Tennessee began collaborating on chestnut restoration research on national forests lands.

In previous elections, candidates from both parties have campaigned on pledges to be environmental presidents. This time, neither candidate is talking much about cleaning up the air or protecting scenic lands.

View wildfire updates on InciWeb, the interagency all-risk incident information management system.

A new study by emeritus professor John Boon of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that the rate of sea-level rise is increasing at tidal stations along the Atlantic coast of North America, including those in Norfolk, Baltimore, New York, and Boston.

A West Virginia Department of Agriculture program launched last year to combat a pest that is slowly killing the state’s hemlock trees will be expanded to additional counties this year.

Trees are estimated to take up about 13 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from a region. If they are fertilized, thus growing bigger faster, they can store more carbon in their tissue and in the soil beneath them.

The upcoming winter is likely to be a mild and dry one for the West and the Upper Midwest, while parts of the Southeast may see cooler and wetter than average conditions, according to the official U.S. winter outlook by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

While there remains a lot of uncertainty about its path, computer-model projections continue to show that the storm will likely make a feared turn into the densely populated Northeast coastline early next week as a hurricane, or hurricane-like storm system.

An intensive, area-wide survey of the Lower Rio Grande Valley has detected the presence of a palm tree-killing weevil that has caused extensive damage in other parts of the world.

View monthly State of the Climate reports from the National Climatic Data Center.

Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and other highly developed coastlines without anyone fully understanding why.

To preserve forest health, the best management decision may be to do nothing.

A changing Gulf Stream off the East Coast has destabilized frozen methane deposits trapped under nearly 4,000 square miles of seafloor, scientists reported.

Scientists find ozone causes forests to use more water, reducing availability in the Southeast.

A team of scientists say that hurricanes are, indeed, more of a danger when ocean temperatures are higher.

View current drought conditions and forecasts from the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Wildlife conservation efforts in the United States are facing habitat loss, climate change and major reductions in funding.

The U.S. Forest Service National Forests in North Carolina law enforcement officers are cracking down on the poaching of ginseng in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests.

More than 200 scientists from across the country have sent a letter to the Obama administration urging the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider a rule that would allow two invasive grasses to qualify as advanced biofuel feedstock under the nation’s renewable fuel standard.

It’s been a long time now since American chestnut trees dominated the forest canopies of the East, so long that there are few people alive who remember stands with trees nearly the size of redwoods or the pungent smell of chestnuts in bloom that filled the forests before the blight came.

Where to dump 60 million pounds of demolition debris, much of it containing asbestos? How about an upstate New York farm that also has wetlands and runs along a river? That act led to the conviction this week of two men who now face years in prison and hefty fines.

Ecologists in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology have found that evolutionary diversity can be an effective method for identifying hotspots of mammal biodiversity.

Surveys show the American public is more convinced of the reality of global warming – but how much will that really shift policy?

The winter moth has already established colonies in Harpswell and Vinalhaven, and could expand from those two coastal communities.

Laurel wilt disease is caused by the fungus Raffaelea lauricola, and is vectored by the redbay ambrosia beetle, an invasive pest from Asia that has spread to the Carolinas, Florida and west to Mississippi.

Bur oak blight, or BOB for short, is a newly identified native disease that causes late season leaf browning.

A report by the National Wildlife Federation questions the safety of a network of oil pipelines operated by Enbridge that run through the Great Lakes region.

For the first time, two tree species more commonly found in warmer southern Ohio are being planted in a northern county's park.

North America has seen the world’s sharpest increase in the number of natural catastrophes during the past 32 years, a trend that in some respects is linked to manmade global warming, according to a report from the global reinsurance giant Munich Re.

The fee waivers--the fourth this year--are offered in cooperation with other federal agencies under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.

Now there's a new tool for fighting alien invasions. Your smart phone.

As residential developments spread into former pastures and woodlands, coyote sightings are becoming more common for homeowners.

Every fall, nature puts on a dazzling show across America’s great outdoors for all of us to see.

The key to forecasting the severity of a tornado season may lie thousands of miles away from America’s “Tornado Alley,” in the wide expanse of the tropical Pacific Ocean, according to a new study.