Vast expanses of grass fields that make up most city parks and residential lawns don’t offer much in terms of mitigating climate change. They don’t soak up a lot of carbon, and they don’t provide ...

Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health. But it’s hard to... Why scientists are planting tiny forests in big cities ...

SUMMIT, N.J. — A growing movement is bringing the benefits of forests into surprisingly small spaces across the country, with communities creating entire ecosystems in areas no bigger than a suburban ...

Students from Catlin Gabel, a private school outside west Portland, has helped grow a "tiny forest" on campus, which is a compact ecosystem that mirrors the region's natural habitat. Pictured in the ...

In the fall of 2021, Cambridge planted the first Miyawaki Forest in the United States. That made news in the American ecological restoration community, even though this event came more than a dozen ...

The project features 164 trees and shrubs which are expected to grow to their full maturity within the community's lifetime.

A staggering one in three people in England lack access to nature-rich spaces within a short walk from their homes. Now, a growing movement is bringing nature back to cities across the UK. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Hundreds of native tree seedlings and shrubs were planted at Fonticello Park on Saturday, marking the first-ever tiny forest in Richmond. On Saturday, March 15, the Chesapeake ...

It’s a mini forest where a small, ivy-encroached, mulched clearing had been. About two dozen University of Virginia student volunteers recently planted 85 trees and shrubs in about an hour, with the ...

Worcester’s other Miyawaki forest at the Plumley Village Apartments was also planted last spring. The city wanted seven Miyawaki forests, but it settled for two, because it wasn't awarded the $1.6 ...

Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health. But it's hard to imagine an entire forest in the middle of a big city.