They want to plant one billion trees by 2028. Planting trees is currently the fastest and cheapest way today to sequester carbon. The average tree absorbs 40 lbs of C02 per year. With billions of ...

At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural ...

Ambitious plans by India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to restore tens of millions of hectares of degraded land by 2030 could be derailed by a lack of good-quality and genetically diverse ...

Imagine you find your bathtub overflowing. Would you pull the plug, but leave the tap running at full blast? Of course not. The natural response would be to turn off the tap before pulling the plug.

Block plantations like these may look efficient, but research shows that more diverse and randomised tree arrangements boost forest productivity and ecosystem health. A new paper published in Nature ...

Tom Brockington, area manager for Forestry England, said the move is "very significant" with between 1,000 and 1,500 trees ...

This method has become popular globally, with different organizations worldwide vouching for its effectiveness, especially as they can grow 10 times faster than normal plantings. The method employs ...

DEC forester Theresa Draves, left, helps volunteers install a tree tube to protect newly planted trees in North Harmony State Forest. Submitted photo Community Science and tree planting are on a new ...

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 ...

HAIFA, Israel (JTA) — Each year on Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday celebrating trees and plants, Lior Weitz and his wife take their two daughters to plant saplings of pine — the tree that more than any ...