Wildfires are currently raging in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria amid a 44°C heatwave, ongoing droughts and strong winds. A map ...

More information: Louis A. König et al, Combining national forest inventories reveals distinct role of climate on tree recruitment in European forests, Ecological Modelling (2025).

Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants ...

A debate is swirling across Europe as to what degree its forests should be managed to best promote biodiversity and carbon storage. Image by Let Ideas Compete via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Wildfires burn coastal homes, forests in Greece as Europe's heatwave spreads east By Reuters July 24, 202211:12 AM PDTUpdated July 24, 2022 ...

One of the saddest stories of loss of European biodiversity is the disappearance of floodplain forests across Europe. Europe-wide, 99.5 per cent of alluvial willow and tamarisk forests have been lost ...

For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open ...

Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy Governments bet billions on burning timber for green power. The Times went deep into one of the continent’s oldest woodlands to track the ...