A new study published in PNAS shows that tree diversity consistently promotes productivity through fostering greater canopy ...

Coconuts are exotic, edible fruits produced by coconut trees. The coconut tree is a kind of palm tree with a single straight trunk and has been used for many purposes since prehistoric times. Every ...

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A tree falls in an urban forest. Then what? It is chipped, hauled and disappeared. In the best case, it becomes furniture, art, mulch. The worst: its lifetime of carbon capture goes up in smoke. If it ...

Author Elif Shafak struggled at first with how to write her new book, The Island of Missing Trees. The story she wanted to tell is about a family from Cyprus, a Mediterranean island that was the ...