Researchers have discovered that the conifers of the Pacific Northwest face their greatest water stress during the region’s eternally wet winters, not the dog days of August when weeks can pass without rain.

When forest harvest levels fell 82 percent on public forest lands in the years after passage of the Northwest Forest Plan, forests became a significant carbon “sink” for the first time in decades.

Forests in the lower 48 states can sequester up to 40 percent of the nation’s fossil fuel carbon emissions, a larger amount than previously estimated – unless a drought or other major disturbance occurs.

A post-doctoratorate researcher at Oregon State University uses computer simulations to look at how butterfly species move across the landscape.

Scientists from Oregon State University and the University of Washington compared the role wolves and sharks play in ecosystems - and found many similarities.

Despite all the concerns about global warming, it makes sense that there have to be a few effects that aren’t all bad, and scientists at Oregon State University have identified one of them.

Some estimates suggested the B&B Complex fire in 2003 released 600 percent more carbon emissions than all other energy and fossil fuel use that year in the state of Oregon. A new study found the fires put out 2.5 percent of annual statewide carbon emissions.