Obviously, you can't literally grow a century-old forest in just a decade, but by mimicking nature's forest-building process, it's possible to kickstart your own mini-forest.

The dark leaves of trees can also raise temperatures by absorbing sunlight. Several analyses in the past few years suggest that these warming effects from forests could partially or fully offset ...

Trees aren’t the only nature-based solution. Prairie grasses are excellent at eating carbon dioxide and pushing carbon down into the soil through their meters-long roots, if we leave them alone.

Nature might not be all about a ruthless “survival of the fittest”. Research suggests that trees don’t just compete for survival, but also cooperate and share resources using underground ...

Cook-Patton’s new study, published in Nature and coauthored by researchers from 17 academic and environmental organizations, says estimates of the rate of carbon accumulation by natural forest ...

For more than three decades, US farmers have been growing genetically engineered crops. Now researchers are pushing to move the technology from farm to forest by releasing transgenic trees ...

The Socratea exorrhiza, or "walking palm," found in South American rainforests, is renowned for its ability to "walk" across the forest floor. With stilt roots that grow in the direction of better ...

Science | March 15, 2024. In Minnesota, Researchers Are Moving Trees Farther North to Save Forests. As the world warms, trees in such forests will no longer be adapted to their local climates.

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to deforestation and forest degradation. But nature ...

It's been 10 years since the creation of the first vertical forest, Milan's Bosco Verticale. How has it inspired other buildings – and affected their residents' happiness and health?