John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...

A long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests. Mickey Pullen/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center However, many tree-planting commitments have a critical flaw: ...

Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and ...

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Scientists warn that planting trees will drastically reduce the world's water supply if the planet continues to warm.

An area of ecologically intact and biodiverse grassland larger than France is endangered by an NGO-fueled push to plant as many trees as possible. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 15, 2024 2:00 PM EST ...

WATERSMEET — The last remaining U.S. Forest Service nursery in the Eastern Region is located in Ottawa National Forest in the ...

Trees cool cities, soak up greenhouse gases and make people healthier, and Kansas City is planting thousands of them. It's more than halfway to its goal of adding 10,000 trees by 2026, and won a grant ...

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The North Carolina Forest Service will begin accepting orders Wednesday, July 1, for its annual tree seedling sale.