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Germany's woodlands, long associated with Grimm's Fairy Tales, are dying. After years of drought, the trees are now facing a new onslaught from bark beetles. Many believe climate change is the cause.

The White Mountain National Forest has a new deputy forest supervisor.Clare Mendelsohn has been an environmental professional in the U.S. Air Force for 25…

The Republican health care bill failed in part because of opposition to shrinking Medicaid. An 11-year-old girl with sickle cell anemia went to Washington, D.C., to make sure that wouldn't happen.

California's record drought is officially over. But trees are still dying across the state because they were so badly weakened by years without water.

A team of researchers went into the woods of Maine searching for a mysterious bird of the eastern forests — a golden eagle. They're conspicuous in the American west but secretive in the east.

The U.S. Forest Service's temporary ban on controlled burning, a practice seen as key to preventing huge and devastating wildfires, has now expired — with questions remaining about future burns.

One company is attempting reforestation with an innovative business model. Investors can track the coveted trees using digital IDs. Their money goes to plant new trees that won't be harvested.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was on Capitol Hill today delivering his semi-annual economic report. The Fed Chairman kept his interest rate cards close to his chest and said the economy is at a crucial point in the business cycle and could go in two significantly different directions in the near future.

Forests "are restless things," writes Zach St. George in his new book The Journeys of Trees. He explains how, over millennia, forests creep inch by inch to more hospitable places.

The New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands is working on the Forest Action Plan 2020, which will assess current forest conditions and trends as well…