Trees

In Austin, Texas, and King County, Washington, private companies can now offset their carbon emissions by funding tree-planting in their local cityscape.

• By Maria Dolan

Commodity-driven deforestation is most responsible, with farming and forestry also playing a major role in the global tree cover loss.

• By Rachel Fritts

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.

• By Rhett A. Butler

And with tropical forests storing almost 250 billion tons of carbon, their fate has major implications for the Earth's atmosphere.

• By Claire Salisbury

Conservation groups report that wetland forests are being drained, logged, burned, shipped across the Atlantic, and converted to monoculture pine plantations to create woody biomass.

• By Rachel Fritts

A new study sheds light on which trees are the most suited for dealing with changing weather patterns in the region.

• By Morgan Erickson-Davis

We're losing about 36 million trees every year, according to a new study.

• By Morgan Erickson-Davis

A group of environmental activists hold a traditional ceremony during an event called Marry a Tree, in the community of San Jacinto Amilpas, Mexico, on February 25th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

In order to better understand just how extreme the state's weather has gotten, scientists looked to the ring patterns of 500-year-old oaks.

• By Daniel Ackerman

A study shows that most of the variation in plants and trees comes down to just two factors: overall size and the "leaf economics spectrum."

• By Nathan Collins

Even the ones we don't have names for.

• By Nathan Collins

New research finds areas that experience a massive die-off of trees also suffer from an increase in cardiovascular disease.

• By Tom Jacobs

New research shows forests are slow to recover from droughts, and climate models that overlook recovery time are likely overestimating how much carbon forests can absorb after droughts.

• By Kate Wheeling

Having less water affects trees' carbon intake, sap production, and more.

• By Francie Diep

Benjamin Cook looks at ancient trees to forecast future droughts. His latest findings are not good news for the West.

• By Alisa Opar

A linguist and top pomologists attempt to answer what should be a simple inquiry. Oddly enough, the answer brings a complicated tale of devil strawberries, insurance companies, inferior fruit, and the messy line between literal and metaphorical interpretation.

• By Ryan Jacobs

There are family trees, and there are trees from hell that are filled with snakes. Sometimes, though, they're not all that different.

• By Casey N. Cep

While it's widely acknowledged that forests can be useful for holding carbon, they release phenomenal amounts of greenhouse gases when they burn.

• By Peter Friederici