Trees, those leafy Earth Day symbols of environmentalism, already clean up the air and guard against soil erosion. Turns out, they also help cities cut down on both money and emissions by simply ...

One tree does not make a forest, but a lone tree can nevertheless function as a small-scale ecosystem. Considering all the insects, spiders and nematodes that live in the wood, bark crevices and ...

More Ben Phillips, environmental lecturer at Mount Allison University, began a process known as dendochronology on the sample — a study that measures the age of trees by counting small lines otherwise ...

Wildlife and Forestry Specialist John Beilhart explained the Trees of Heaven - recognizable by their elongated oval leaves, barks resembling cantaloupe, and a distinct smell from a broken limb.

Across the eastern United States, tree communities are shifting toward fewer species in a process known as homogenization.

A cooling blanket made from foil and tarpaulin is used to control the thaw of the frozen trees. (Image FLS) Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is running an exciting new trial, planting frozen trees ...

By looking at the series of ring widths in a tree, McCoach and her collaborators know how much or how little the tree has grown in every year. “With this data, we can correlate tree growth with ...

But it’s losing trees faster than any other neighborhood in Boston, according to the city’s 2022 Urban Forest Plan, which analyzed city tree data collected from 2014 to 2019. Since the city launched ...