The idea that forest trees can 'talk' to each other, share resources with their seedlings -- and even protect them -- through a connective underground web of delicate fungal filaments tickles the ...

4 solutions for trees and forests threatened by a hotter world. Most important, of course, is to cut the emissions that are heating the planet. But beyond that, there are ways to help forests adapt.

In the Northeastern U.S., trees around the edges of urban forests grow faster, and the soil gives off less carbon dioxide, ... Forest edge at urban field site in Newton, MA.

As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls ...

To be considered for planting in national forests, which make up nearly a fifth of U.S. forestland, Living Carbon’s trees would need to align with existing management plans that typically ...

It all started by working with a scientist and his research crew, probing deeply into the lives of trees at Harvard Forest, a 4,000-acre laboratory of mostly scrappy third-growth trees, on former ...

Throughout the 20 th Century, the Forest Service grew trees by, well, planting them. ... “We’re just fighting to make it an even playing field. ...

More than a pretty forest: Trees use their own mysterious "wood wide web" to sync up and shield themselves from surprise events . Depositphotos. 2 / 2. ... of quantum field theory, ...

Nations are pledging to plant billions of trees. But a new study shows that we've underestimated the power of natural forest regrowth to fight climate change.

The mini forest will be the first at a zoo in this country, according to the zoo.. Rooted in Trees founder Paul Abbey with grand-daughter Samantha, at right, were joined in planting an urban ...

In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to turn back the clock. Five hundred years ago, this land was part of the Mata Atlantica, a dense, diverse rain forest that ...