Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, ecologists are testing which tree combin ...

Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to be published the week of Feb. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has ...

On a patch of Livingston campus once covered in asphalt, Rutgers University-New Brunswick students are planting the ...

Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the ...

Big things are blooming in the green space around the Solar Strand and the GRoW Clean Energy Center on the North Campus. The GRoW Garden celebrated a very successful first planting season that saw a ...

The tree mix matters. Near Chesapeake Bay, scientists have been experimenting with mini-forests for over a decade. The ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, ...

Several years ago, I planted a London garden where the brief was grasses, grasses, and more grasses. The clients were mildly obsessed. And, despite my reservations, I'll admit, they were onto ...

Trees growing on forest edges are shaped differently from those growing deep in the forest. (IMAGE) University of Helsinki Caption Point cloud of trees growing deep in the forest (above) and in ...

Across acre after acre on the North Carolina’s coastal plains stand ghosts of what once was. Instead of green maritime forests, you’ll find marshes filled with bare trees. The culprit behind these ...

As per the latest India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023) published by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC), Maharashtra has the maximum growing stock outside forest ...