An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Long before ...

A previously unknown species of native jumping spider boasting incredible eyesight and rather modest genitalia has been ...

The Salticidae paapaakiri is a native jumping spider that lives beneath the bark of the rimu tree, a strange behaviour not ...

A previously unknown species of native jumping spider boasting incredible eyesight and rather modest genitalia has been ...

Wildfires have left communities devastated across New Mexico, but it’s not just people who are affected. All that destruction takes a toll on the trees left standing.

Swathes of the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania could be on the chopping block as the federal ...

The Pennsylvania legislature designated the eastern hemlock the official state tree on June 22, 1931.This tree thrives in ...

Never Let Go (now on Starz) is a high-concept horror-thriller starring Halle Berry as a possibly cursed, possibly mentally ...

Many of the Maine woods have been cut so hard that reshaping them for carbon storage will be neither quick nor easy.

Alabama's forestry industry, the state's largest, faces a new threat from brown spot needle blight, a fungal disease affecting loblolly pine trees. The disease, exacerbated by recent mild, wet weather ...