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The tree has become the focus of a debate over plans to build a new engineering building at the University of Florida.

Jack Calhoun and his siblings donated the 310-acre Calhoun Family Forest to the Monadnock Conservancy. They wanted the tract to be managed as their…

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from northern China that feeding the country's huge population has become even more difficult because of desertification. For years, the government encouraged Chinese peasants to clear more forests and produce more crops and livestock. But this has caused soil erosion, flooding and the spread of the Gobi desert. Now the government is encouraging tree planting, restricting the peasants' freedom to plant... and feed themselves.

This summer, the worst wildfires in decades ravaged the American countryside. Millions of acres burned and 16 firefighters were killed. Still, most residents escaped unharmed. It wasn't a summer but an October weekend, in 1871 when the country's deadliest forest fire ever broke out. It happened in the Northern Wisconsin town of Peshtigo. From Wisconsin Public Radio, Patty Murray reports.

Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.

A golden trophy and pot of prize money worth more than $100,000 was hidden in a forest recently. So of course I joined in the hunt.

The sequoias are "wrapped with house-wrapping material, kind of an aluminum-foil fabric that goes around the base of the trees," says Jon Wallace, who is helping to lead the firefighting effort.

In this Vermont kindergarten, every Monday is "Forest Monday" a day that gets students out of the classroom and into nature.

The winner in the documentary short film category, the film, now streaming on Netflix, depicts the loving relationship of a tribe in India and the pachyderms who share the forest with them.

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, positive response from people, including those who call the trees inspirational.