Reforestation can fight climate change, uplift communities and restore biodiversity. When done badly, though, it can speed extinctions and make nature less resilient. By Catrin Einhorn A tree planted ...

Trees and forests around the world are under strain from climate change. They also are threatened by logging and development. To address these problems—and to increase the capture of carbon dioxide ...

Associate Fellow, Tree Productivity and Diversity, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) Ian Dawson receives funding from the CGIAR, bilateral and multilateral ...

To fight climate change, companies and nonprofits have been promoting worldwide planting campaigns. Getting to a trillion is easier said than done. Villagers hired by Eden Reforestation Projects ...

When I lived in New York City, the view from my kitchen window was framed by a tremendous scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) who towered over the brick homes below — a 150-year-old remnant from before the ...

A recent tree-planting campaign started by a YouTube personality set an ambitious goal: raise $20 million to plant 20 million trees by Jan. 1, 2020. The project, known as #TeamTrees, offered the kind ...

Kate Parr receives funding from the Royal Society, National Geographic, and the Rufford Small Grants. Caroline Lehmann receives funding from the Royal Society, Darwin Initiative, Newton Fund, National ...

New studies raise issues that complicate the ambitious goals to use mass tree-planting to fight climate change. The researchers warn that in some cases, carbon-offset tree plantations could reduce ...

Fall and spring are the best times to plant. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is providing trees that are 10 to 15 feet tall, for immediate impact. Nine fruit trees were planted on a lot on the 1900 ...

French oil giant TotalEnergies announced last November that it aims to plant 40,000 hectares (or more than 98,000 acres) of trees in the Republic of the Congo. It’s an offset program for the ...