Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

Pine rings record a sharp rise in rainfall intensity and volatility, showing modern extremes exceed patterns seen over the past 500 years.

Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to ...

COCONUT GROVE, Fla. — From the arid deserts of Arizona to the lush foliage of Florida, trees can make a big difference in the world around us. “Trees are crucially important for our urban environments ...

Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere, according to a study published 24 July in Nature. While trees have long been known to benefit the climate by ...

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree ...

Wil Bosbyshell leaned against a cherry tree in his backyard. One hand held a sheet of paper in place while the other shaded. He is a professional artist who has been working in Charlotte for 30 years, ...

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study says the opposite: the giants of the rainforest are thriving, and even the ...

Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of ...