Less Sea Ice Means More Arctic Trees—Which Means Trouble
Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a baby white spruce get protection from a blanket of snow. At the …
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Early jacaranda bloom sparks debate about climate change in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Every spring, the streets of Mexico’s capital are painted purple with the flowering of thousands of jacaranda trees. Their spectacular colors not only attract the eyes of …
Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing | Books | Entertainment
Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing (Image: Getty) The UK itself is home to 123 million of them and has many historic giants, like the 1,000-year-old …
Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
In a cavernous theater lit up with the green shapes of camels and palms at COP28 in Dubai, ecologist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser for the United Nations’ Trillion …
California’s Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble
According to Blom, whose group favors thinning dense stands of young trees and reducing accumulations of vegetation and woody debris from the forest floor through prescribed burns or mechanical methods, …
Fire, other ravages jeopardize California’s prized forests
By Brian Melley | Associated Press KYBURZ — On a mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand against …
A fight over precious groundwater in a rural California town is rooted in carrots
NEW CUYAMA: In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pistachio trees to ensure they’re not wasting any …
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations
Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens of her colleagues to run experiments in a 7,000-gallon stainless steel chamber at …