In order for trees to grow, they need to control their water balance meticulously. A study shows how trees react to drought -- and revises previous perceptions. In order for trees to grow, they need ...

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change ...

The top-line findings of a massive analysis of the growth rate of more than 20,000 tropical trees in more than 30 countries may at first seem reassuring: that droughts over the past century have had a ...

Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Spatial and temporal distribution of predicted tree heights and tree height change trends in Shenzhen. The red line graph on the right side of each figure indicates the change in average tree height ...

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prologue, many of those ...

Optimizing tree architecture is a long-standing challenge in fruit production, as branch orientation directly affects light interception, labor requirements, and yield efficiency. This study shows ...

New research from the UBC-based Mother Tree Project is shedding light on how forests respond to harvesting and climate stress ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more ...

As the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August of 1945 proved to be devastating enough to convince scientists that ...