Planting Trees in a City 30 Years Ago May Have Lowered the Risk of Deaths From Diseases
After Friends of Trees planted 50,000 trees on Portland streets, researchers found that living near them reduced disease risk in residents.
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Lumber Company Grows Trees That Smile With Massive Grin for Oregon Drivers
Years ago, Hampton Lumber company decided to replant the hill's trees with early-changing larch in the shape of a smiley face.
Here's an Interactive Map that Will Allow You to Plan a Precise Fall Foliage Road Trip
A Smokey Mountains tourist website has created an interactive map that allows you to see how the leaves change color across the USA.
Botanical Researchers Are 'Thrilled' After Discovering an Oak Tree Once Thought to Be Extinct
A lone tree standing about 30 feet-tall in Big Bend Nat'l Park is an oak once thought to be extinct (Q. tardifolia) for over a decade.
He Planted a Giant Sequoia in the UK to Offset His Carbon Footprint for Life - And 700 More to Make a Forest
Henry Emson realized that planting a sequoia tree would make triply-sure his family's impact on the climate was taken care of.
Scientists Turn Brazilian Tree Bark Into Promising Treatment for Leukemia
Compounds from a Brazilian tree bark can now be used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia after a new technique that delivers it straight into the cancer cell.
Tree Growing Nonprofit is Sprouting Entrepreneurs With Unique Training and Lots of Trees for Madagascar
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One of Britain's Oldest and Greatest Oak Trees Gets $7,000 Hug from Community
A 700-1,000-year-old sessile oak, known as the Capon Tree, was awarded a grant of £7,000, or around $8,500, for a caregiving regime
Nature-Loving Grandma Stages One-Woman Protest to Protect Tree Due to Be Felled By Local Government
A disabled, grandmother staged a one-woman protest to get a stay of execution for a healthy willow tree about to be chopped down.
Making Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon Than Trees for US Startup
It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and molding machines, the fibers of certain grass species can be just as strong as wood
Urban Trees at the End of Life Are Turned into Valuable Products, Rather Than Chipped for Landfil
Cities across America are producing millions of board-feet of high quality lumber from trees cut down in urban areas.
Genius UK Business Uses Christmas Trees to Protect the Region From Flooding
After three Christmas seaons, the rented trees grow too big for further holiday decor, and are transfered to the hills to stop flooding.
Ginkgo Trees Were Going Extinct on Their Own; Then Humans Saved These 'Living Fossils' So Now They're Everywhere
The Ginkgo tree, while beautiful on city streets, has a sad evolutionary history in which it was only saved by extinction by meeting humans.
Holly Tree Presumed Extinct for 200 Years Discovered After Placement on Most Wanted List: 'Nature surprises us'
A team returns to the site weekly to see if the trees are fruiting in the hopes of collecting seeds from the tree to germinate them.
He Found the Largest Old Growth Cedar in BC - The Tree of His Lifetime (LOOK)
On a recent trip to Flores Island in Clayoquot Sound, TJ Watt found one of the largest, oldest trees in the country.
Tree of the Year Contest Features Oak that Stood Up to Bombing and Elm that Survived Catastrophic Plague
12 trees have been nominated for the outstanding characteristics they lend to surrounding townscapes and city parks, this year's theme.
Tree-Loving Brits Crowdsource a National 'Ancient Tree Inventory' - 200,000 Unique Trees
The Woodland Trust maintains an app as well as printed sheets to allow anybody to register the location and characteristics of ancients.
Texas Oak Tree Thought to Be Extinct Discovered in Big Bend National Park
Quercus tardifolia or the late-leaf oak, is a living relic of a bygone climactic period in Texas' history when the Lone Star State was wetter
Loss of Climate-Crucial Mangrove Forests Has Slowed to Near-Negligible Amount Worldwide, Report Hails
In the last ten years, mangrove loss has slowed to just 0.04% year over year, while countries are beginning to take protecting them seriously
Leslie Dart has Planted 372,290 Trees Across Canada Over the Past 3 Summers and Inspired So Many Others
The video's author, Leslie Dart, doesn't have a career in forestry and plants trees only because it pays extra, and it's incredibly rewarding
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