As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...

Researchers across the globe, from Australia to the Amazon rainforest, are experimenting on forests in a bid to better understand the role trees play in keeping the Earth cool.

Plane trees in cities have an important cooling effect even in extreme heat, according to a new study conducted by the Swiss ...

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ...

The majority of the trees drop their leaves at the end of the typical growing season in a deciduous forest. This biome is found east of the Mississippi River. The average weather is cool/cold and ...

It's been 10 years since the creation of the first vertical forest, Milan's Bosco Verticale. How has it inspired other ...

We can either allow South Seattle to bear the brunt of rising temperatures, or act now to create the resilient city our ...

So you need trees that can handle these kinds of conditions. - [Rossie] The second rule of urban forests, you need the community. Cities like Durham are leafier than most. We have a 52% canopy ...

Walking into the forest, her face brightens, her nostrils flare as she breathes in the cool, damp, fragrant air. She points to a massive, cloud-piercing giant with long, loose strips of grayish bark.

And forests are vulnerable the same way as every ecosystem is." Tree species themselves are also increasingly at risk. ... So, can we rely on trees to continue keeping the Earth cool?

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ...

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ...