The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?
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Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2
Trees floating towards the Arctic OceanCarl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute Cutting down swathes of…
What Researchers Are Doing to Protect Christmas Trees in a Warming World
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.The Christmas…
How Conifers and Christmas Trees Secretly Shaped U.S. History
’Tis the season for conifers—whether they are being decorated for a little Christmas cheer or…
Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
Trees on the streets of Montreal in Canada benefit from leaky pipesCatherine Zibo/Shutterstock Trees growing…
Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone
Fig trees may be especially good at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphereRaimund Linke/mauritius images…
Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease
Some ash trees have genetic variants that confer partial resistance to ash diebackFLPA / Alamy…
Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible
A tree-planting project in British Columbia, CanadaJames MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images It would be nearly…
‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’
In the 1960s, yields were growing and diseases were few, Mr Adei said, but officials…
Infographic: Reasons Why Trees Are Awesome
We have so many reasons to be grateful for trees. Trees provide shade for our…