Just a few species could determine the future of tropical forests by dispersing seeds that are essential for their ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Hidden beneath a quiet patch of forest in eastern Oregon, a single organism has quietly conquered the landscape, killing trees as it spreads and knitting the soil together with living threads.

A new study shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals -- those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and other plants -- could severely disrupt seed-dispersal networks ...