Researchers have found that forest soils need several decades to recover from bushfires and logging -- much longer than previously thought. A landmark study from The Australian National University ...

Australian National University’s Elle Bowd led a research team that collected 729 soil cores from 81 sites in the mountain ash forests of southeast Australia. The sampling sites had been subjected to ...

Logging in temperate zones may release more greenhouse gases than previously thought by destabilizing carbon stored in forest soils, argues a new paper published in the journal Global Change ...

The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest. As we approach the tenth anniversary of these fires, we are reminded ...

It will take up to eight decades, not 10 to 15 years, for forest soil damaged by logging or wildfires to recover, revealed a new study. A team of scientists investigated the soil of the Ash Mountain ...

Logging operations can negatively affect soil density and water infiltration within forests, particularly along makeshift logging roads and landing areas where logs are stored before being trucked to ...