Trees are silent sentinels to place and time. We pass by hundreds, if not thousands, of them each day on our drives and walks. We plant them from time to time in our yards and parks. They are ...

College Park, Md - As the global climate change conversation intensifies and nations look to minimize environmental impacts in their own backyards, nature-based solutions are garnering new levels of ...

Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, ...

Close your eyes and tell me what you see when you think of Cascades Park. I see lots of concrete, grass and very few trees. It is not a tree shaded park. It is hot and mostly unusable in the summer ...

Researchers introduced L-PEACH-d, a computer-based model that simulates peach tree growth. The model integrates concepts related to carbon assimilation, distribution, and use in peach trees, and ...

With spring in the Northern Hemisphere in full bloom, forests are again beckoning hikers onto paths that wend their way through thousands of acres of old growth trees. Such forests not only offer ...

Many people look at trees to relax, taking in the soothing fractal patterns to adjust their eyes from too many hours spent at a computer. Dominick "Dom" Ciruzzi, assistant professor of geology at ...

Researchers have conducted an empirical field study and concluded that single urban trees, such as street trees, function differently than trees grown in clusters featuring significantly greater ...