Loosely translated as "solitude of the forest", waldeinsamkeit is seeing a post-pandemic renaissance in Germany. Everybody is at it in Germany. They're doing it in the trees in the Black Forest ...

The maps show a substantial increase in damaged forest area in central Germany, such as in the Harz region, the Thuringian forest, Sauerland or Saxon Switzerland, especially after 2018.

Almost 5% of Germany’s total forest areas have been destroyed since 2018, according to new data based on satellite images, making deforestation a much larger problem than previously thought.

A firefighting vehicle is pictured as smoke from a wildfire is seen in Beelitz, southwest of Berlin, eastern Germany, on June 19, 2022. A combination of hot, dry and windy weather has increased ...

Once known as Abnoba Mons, after the Celtic goddess of the wilds, Abnoba, Germany’s Schwarzwald, or Black Forest, has been the backdrop for myths and fairy tales for centuries.

Consider Germany's landscape and it's not hard to see why. With 90 billion trees, 76 tree species and around 1,215 plant species making up Germany's forests, there's plenty of it to go around.