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 ...

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done. A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely ...

A warning from climate change experts that the UK needs to quickly plant a lot more trees has prompted readers to ask how they can help. At best we need to more than double the amount of trees we ...

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 ...

How often should I water succulents in pots? JOSH: Succulents have become hugely popular, for good reason. They look good and they're hardy. But I find here in Perth, for example, in summer, I still ...

When Claire Cameron planted black spruce trees in the 1990s, she thought she was saving the planet. But as wildfires ravaged parts of Canada this past summer, she wonders how many of those saplings ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. In the 1980s, charities proposed planting more trees to halt “desertification” in the Sahara Desert. This involved ...

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UK governments have fallen so far short of their tree-planting targets since 2020 that they have failed to plant an area of forest nearly equivalent to the size of Birmingham, Carbon Brief analysis ...

Ferns, which have been called “living fossils,” reveal the powerful resilience and adaptability of ancient life forms. Among them, tree ferns, which are perfectly adapted to local conditions in Taiwan ...