Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

At the urging of environmentalists and the Forest Service, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy signed an order Friday allowing loggers to retrieve trees cut before he stopped all work in burned areas of ...

Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...

Trump’s new law eliminates those protections, freeing loggers to cut big trees and leave behind the small ones. This will worsen existing tinderbox conditions, particularly in the West.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to auction off trees in the Deschutes, Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forests by the end ...

In the forest around Hart Prairie, about 14 miles north of Flagstaff, trees appear to be uprooting themselves and walking across the forest floor. But the sound of the forest is mechanical, a hum ...

Northeastern Ontario’s Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park has transformed into a temporary logging operation due to a storm ...

For decades, farmers hungry for land and families needing firewood whittled away at Uganda's forests, home to endangered gorillas, elephants and chimpanzees.