Most newly planted trees tend to live only between seven to fifteen years. This is awful since many can survive hundreds of years in their native setting. Trees almost never die overnight although we ...

Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now researchers are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won't be an ...

New studies raise issues that complicate the ambitious goals to use mass tree-planting to fight climate change. The researchers warn that in some cases, carbon-offset tree plantations could reduce ...

This article was originally featured in Nexus Media News. After a series of winter storms pummeled California this winter, thousands of trees across the state lost their grip on the earth and crashed ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. Certainly the ...

Tree of heaven, Ailanthus altissima, is often noticed only after it has begun to dominate a space. In domestic settings, it ...