Living in a city means constant exposure to traffic, noise, crowds, and concrete. But what you see outside your front door ...

A study finds that shelterbelts in Japan’s wet farmlands boost edge-dwelling birds but reduce grassland species by about 74 ...

Trees provide an important buffer against problems created by climate change, cooling our neighborhoods and helping control stormwater, but in Arlington, a new study shows an alarming loss of tree ...

Wildfires and power outages caused by vegetation near powerlines have contributed to some of the state's most destructive fires.

Despite decades of industrial deposition, nitrogen availability in the boreal forest is steadily declining. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural ...

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People plant trees as a part of the DCR's Urban and Community Forestry Program in 2022. This story was originally produced by WBUR. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the New England News ...

Planting trees is seen as a cornerstone of efforts to avert climate breakdown. But a major new study in Science finds their potential has been drastically overstated—and relying on forests to offset ...

Trees are growing even bigger in the Amazon rainforest - despite climate change, reveals new research. Average tree size across the world’s largest tropical rainforest has increased by 3.2% every ...

Supporters of a new project hope studying the benefits of tree and shrub systems used to protect farms from extreme weather, otherwise known as windbreaks, will revive the practice among Illinois ...