The planet is becoming greener, but scientists warn that forests with fast-growing trees are more fragile and less resilient.

Several years ago, I planted a London garden where the brief was grasses, grasses, and more grasses. The clients were mildly obsessed. And, despite my reservations, I'll admit, they were onto ...

Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to be published the week of Feb. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has ...

If you are looking to harvest more homegrown food in your garden, why not take a note from nature and grow like a forest? In the wild, plants grow in complimentary layers to maximize space and ...

Forests of the world, the U.S., the West and certainly of the Sierras are a growing responsibility. The forests themselves are growing, literally, in terms of the biomass they are accumulating every ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, ...

Rajasthan misses the trees... and the woods. Phoney 'plantations' replace shrinking forests ...

Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the ...

Big things are blooming in the green space around the Solar Strand and the GRoW Clean Energy Center on the North Campus. The GRoW Garden celebrated a very successful first planting season that saw a ...

Comparison of canopy height dynamics in plantations and secondary forests. (A) Violin plots of canopy height in 2019. (B) The regression slope of annual canopy height for 1986 to 2019. (C) The CV of ...