France needs to invest up to 10 billion euros over ten years to adapt its forests to climate change by planting trees and better managing the land, the government has said.

The Ardennes Forest is in a remote corner of western Europe and straddles the frontiers of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. It is best known as the “impassable” area where the Nazis ...

It stressed the need for public support to protect 15% of France’s forest land, or 1.05 million hectares (2.6 million acres), over the next decade.

Firefighters were battling a wildfire in southwestern France on Wednesday in a region known for its pine forests that was ravaged by flames last month. The blaze forced the evacuation of about ...