‘Being near trees helps you live longer,’ says Dr Tara Swart
It may have been widely ridiculed but it appears that tree hugging might, in fact, relieve stress and lead to a longer life, says a new study. Roaming through woods …
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Only the Hardiest Trees Can Survive Today’s Urban Inferno
The rules for Toronto’s ravines are based on the idea that a species will develop traits specific to a location as they grow over many generations. As a result, trees …
Less Sea Ice Means More Arctic Trees—Which Means Trouble
Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a baby white spruce get protection from a blanket of snow. At the …
Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing | Books | Entertainment
Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing (Image: Getty) The UK itself is home to 123 million of them and has many historic giants, like the 1,000-year-old …
Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
In a cavernous theater lit up with the green shapes of camels and palms at COP28 in Dubai, ecologist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser for the United Nations’ Trillion …
California’s Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble
According to Blom, whose group favors thinning dense stands of young trees and reducing accumulations of vegetation and woody debris from the forest floor through prescribed burns or mechanical methods, …
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations
Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens of her colleagues to run experiments in a 7,000-gallon stainless steel chamber at …