During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tree planting is widely promoted as a solution to challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss, desertification, and more. One ...

Count the beautiful trees – 1 Mangrove Tree, 2 Banyan Trees, 3 Live Oak Trees, 4 Juniper Trees, all the way to 10 Ponderosa Pine Trees. Detailed, colorful illustrations show people and animals ...

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Are plants intelligent? Until recently, botanists were hesitant to ask that question, at least publicly. But that’s changing. In recent years researchers have learned more about how plants communicate ...

Trees first appeared around 400 million years ago. They survived the mass-extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago and lived through several glacial periods during which ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. When a tree is cut down (or dies) that carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Wood products like timber, however, can ...

Usually trees get turned into books and not the other way around, but Sourcebooks children’s authors have plans for reforestation. Rachel Griffin’s third YA novel featuring witches, Bring Me Your ...

Roger Milliken built one of the world’s leading textile and chemical manufacturers. But his environmental stewardship might be his greatest legacy.