This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In the stark sheep pastures of Ireland’s ...

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This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the stark sheep pastures of Ireland’s Maumturk Mountains, just a few gnarled trees cling to the hillside, ...

“Our culture and life was given to us from them, the Tree People.” —John Martin, Tlingit Elder “We go out to the old growth in the forest with the canopy where the bears sleep and the deer sleep to ...

In North America and in Europe, there is a lot of justifiable hand-wringing over what is being done to the Amazon and other tropical rainforests. Treehugger readers will already be well aware of the ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...