From sonic tomographies to global biodiversity negotiations, this journey through research, resilience, and connection ...

A forest with high tree-species diversity is better at buffering heat peaks in summer and cold peaks in winter than a forest ...

Baylor University is widely known for its beautiful campus, with a long-standing history of planting, caring for and ...

Conservation scientists are challenging the old-school mindset of preserving natural areas in a fixed, untouched state.

It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store, or "sequester," more carbon. A new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station untangled carbon ...

Trees are natural air conditioners, water filters, carbon sinks, and, like our forefathers always knew, factories of medicine ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new developments are built in high-danger fire areas.

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest ...

“Studies such as this one emphasize the aesthetic power of trees. There is a Japanese tradition known as ‘forest bathing,’ ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...