Forests worldwide are increasingly used to store carbon as a way to slow climate change, but a Dartmouth-led study finds that some wooded areas may be more valuable without trees, allowing the ...

While the trees in Amman’s mini-forests are still young — the oldest has only been around for four and a half years — there’s a perceptible cooling effect of about 14C under their canopies ...

So that means, for example, that trees know the forest. And trees are able to cool down the local climate around about 15 degrees by sweating together. For example, a big broadleaf tree is able to get ...

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 ...

Ecology has a role in protecting water quality at forestry sites, and our analysis of the draft Forest Practices Board rule ...

But when that single tree is part of a small forest, it creates a profound cooling effect. Trees play a big role in keeping our towns and cities cool. Skip to main content ...

The good news is there’s a simple way to cool things down: plant trees. “You’re easily 10 degrees cooler stepping under the shade of a tree,” said Brad Lancaster, an urban forester in Tucson. “It’s ...

The forest scent comes from a variety of organic vapors emitted by the trees and other plants, commonly referred to as biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). It is still a bit of a mystery why ...

A pine tree in Clark County, Washington damaged by the 2021 heat wave. The trees in the background are scorched Douglas fir. Credit: Karen Ripley/USFS Posted in Articles Forests In the once-cool ...

The findings, published in Sustainable Cities and Society, show that conventional climate models overestimated the ability of trees to cool during heat waves by 60%.

In extreme heat, trees can help cool neighborhoods. ... By 2010, as part of a study with the U.S. Forest Service, the city had identified priority areas for planting, ...