A team of researchers sampling soil beneath a millennia-old conifer in southern Chile found that a single ancient tree can ...

Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study ...

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 ...

Ancient alerce trees may shelter entire underground ecosystems, with vast fungal networks helping forests cycle nutrients and store carbon.

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large study finds city trees linked to lower heart disease risk, while grass and shrubs show higher risk. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

Living in a tree-filled neighborhood may be as beneficial to the heart as regular exercise, new research shows. Researchers at the University of Louisville designed a clinical trial that followed ...

In the forests of the southeastern United States, dense tree cover dominates most landscapes. That's why the Appalachian Trail is sometimes nicknamed "The Green Tunnel." But avid hikers know that ...

A new study from the University of Toronto Mississauga finds that street trees are unevenly distributed across Canadian cities, with marginalized neighborhoods often seeing fewer and smaller trees and ...

A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...

(CNN) — Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts, scientists have found. The math concept hidden in this tree art — ...