Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these ...
"This is the first time I've seen real hope." ...
Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, ecologists are testing which tree ...
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prologue, many of those ...
John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...
SALISBURY — Under bright Saturday morning skies on Sept. 6, Catawba College students, faculty and staff came together to plant something built to last: a dense, diverse, fast-growing Miyawaki forest ...
Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done. A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely ...
This can be achieved by giving them greater priority in forest management and through more active ecosystem restoration. "When establishing new forests, far more emphasis should be placed on ...