Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. When a tree is cut down (or dies) that carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Wood products like timber, however, can ...

The list of benefits that trees bestow on urban neighborhoods is long: People who live near more trees feel younger, are happier, and are healthier. But perhaps one of the most important factors in a ...

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new ...

Most important, of course, is to cut the emissions that are heating the planet. But beyond that, there are ways to help forests adapt. Heat lamps glow in an infrared image of a research station near ...