Fast-growing trees don't always store more carbon. In tough environments, slow but resilient species store more.

Forests provide many ecosystem services, including microclimate regulation, biodiversity preservation, air and water ...

In the world of interior design and seasonal decor, Easter trees are a legitimate decoration trend - and an up and coming one ...

Sara Coleridge, daughter of Samuel Coleridge the poet, wrote verses for children during the mid-1800s and amongst her ditties about gardens and flowers that bloom each month, she is perhaps most ...

“For at least five centuries, Engadin families have enhanced the facades of their homes with great care, sometimes ...

The high-altitude forest here is the perfect microclimate for the species, and it’s one of the few places in the world where ...

From cherry blossoms at Salem’s Capitol Mall to kayaking across Netarts Bay, poke around western Oregon from the valley to ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass ... (large specific leaf area, high specific ...

Portland’s canopy cover—measured by the layer of leaves, branches and stems of ... climbs a Douglas fir in Portland. Shandas is a leading scholar on the relationship between trees and human health.

silver fir and apple trees. “We must...plant orchards for our sons,” she wrote, so that instead of looking at the earth to see potatoes – “earth apples” – as their only fruit ...

Mulch can be almost any loose aggregate material that will stay put and not significantly reduce air exchange out of the soil ...