It’s a mini forest where a small, ivy-encroached, mulched clearing had been. About two dozen University of Virginia student volunteers recently planted 85 trees and shrubs in about an hour, with the ...

Block plantations like these may look efficient, but research shows that more diverse and randomised tree arrangements boost forest productivity and ecosystem health. A new paper published in Nature ...

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Global tree-planting campaigns have reached fad-like proportions over the past decade, and it’s easy to understand their appeal. Healthy forests help in the fight against climate change by absorbing ...

India needs a raft of strategies beyond planting trees to meet its climate commitments, researchers says. The country has pledged to expand forest cover to absorb an additional three billion tonnes of ...

Strategically planting trees along the northern edge of Canada’s boreal forest could remove multiple gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the end of the century, according to a new ...

Standing on its commitment to protect and improve our environment, while helping customers save money and energy, ComEd supports tree planting efforts each year in honor of Arbor Day, a national ...

Way back in graduate school in Iowa, I was asked to give a presentation on invasive plants at an Extension conference. After my presentation, the Iowa State University Extension forester, who had ...

The city of Springfield won a federal grant of nearly $890,000 from the U.S. Forest Service to plant 1,000 trees and to hire a community outreach arborist and three student-worker arborists during the ...

An area of ecologically intact and biodiverse grassland larger than France is endangered by an NGO-fueled push to plant as many trees as possible. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 15, 2024 2:00 PM EST ...

At high densities, white-tailed deer inhibit growth of trees but increase the overall diversity of smaller plant and weed species, according to a long-term study published recently. The work is ...