There are quite a few things that pose a threat to the ecosystem, and deforestation might be one of the worst offenders. Here ...

Trees in tropical forests are dying at an increased rate, with consequences for biodiversity, carbon storage, and the global ...

Large scale destruction of trees—deforestation—affects ecosystems, climate, and even increases risk for zoonotic diseases spreading to humans.

Wageningen University researchers modeled climate responses of over 32,000 tree species under global warming scenarios.

A series of protests, as well as an online petition that gathered more than 140,000 signatures, eventually forced the City Council on May 2 to change its plans and promise not to cut a single tree ...

Trees are essential to life on Earth. They support ecosystems, store carbon, provide clean water, improve our health, and ...

Living trees are not only fighting global warming by fixing carbon through photosynthesis – a recent paper suggests that microbes living in the bark can fix methane, which is responsible for ...

A few years ago, feeling the need to do my part to slow global warming, I pledged $1 million to plant a million native conifer trees, many of them in areas burned by wildfires in Oregon’s ...

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can’t possibly counteract the ...

Tree restoration may have “higher climate change mitigation potential” than previously thought thanks to trees’ atmospheric effects, the researchers write.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Trees combat climate change by capturing and storing carbon that would otherwise contribute to global warming. For that reason alone, preserving forests is a good thing. But ...