How Crowded Barcelona Plans to Shoehorn In 108 Acres of New Parks

Source: mnn.com Published: June 1, 2017 Park Guell in Barcelona is one of the city’s top tourist attractions, and offers a bit of perspective on how tightly packed this ancient-and-yet-totally-modern city really is. (Photo: Luciano Mortula – LGM/Shutterstock) There...

Are Hedges Better at Fighting Urban Air Pollution Than Trees?

Source: mnn.com Published: May 24, 2017 The British countryside is famed for its hedgerows. According to scientists, cities need more dense lines of shrubs in order to effectively combat automobile-borne air pollution. (Photo: Jenny Brown/flickr) By Matt Hickman Make...

Seeing the Wood for the Trees

Source: conservationbytes.com Published: July 11, 2016 From the towering kapoks of South America to the sprawling banyans of South Asia, from misty cloud forests to ice-covered pines, forests are some of the most diverse and important ecosystems on Earth. However, as...

The TreeSisters Million Trees Campaign

Source: treesisters.org Published: April 5, 2017 Restoring Our Forests – One Woman At a Time Women as a Force of Nature, On Behalf of Nature BECOME A TREESISTER We are calling for women to become treesisters by contributing monthly to tropical reforestation. We are...

Trees Can Help UK Farming Cut Emissions

Source: bbc.com Published: January 5, 2016 Increasing agricultural yields coupled with tree planting and wetland restoration could help the UK farming industry to cut its carbon footprint  By Mark Kinver Increasing yields produced in UK fields and using the spare...

What We Can Learn from Trees

Source: nationalgeographic.com Published: February 21, 2017 By Cathy Newman Photographs by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/rights-exempt/2017/03/Trees/trees-outside-desert-tree.adapt.676.1.jpg Bristlecone Pines | Inyo...

In the Sierras, New Approaches to Protecting Forests Under Stress

Source: e360.yale.edu Published: February 13, 2017 Giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park. Tuxyso/Wikimedia By Janet Marinelli In California’s Sierras and around the world, extreme drought and rising temperatures are killing trees and threatening the viability of...

English City Combats Climate Change With 3 Million New Trees

Source: mnn.com Published: January 25, 2017 Alexandra Park, a large urban park in Manchester, England, is getting some leafy company thanks to the City of Trees initiative, which will oversee the planting of 3 million new trees while caring for and reviving existing...

Conservation Group Turns Christmas Trees into Salmon Habitat

Source: goodnewsnetwork.org Published: January 2, 2014 By Good News Network Before you kick your dying Christmas tree to the curb, consider this: Members of the conservation group Trout Unlimited would love to turn that tree into fish habitat. On three Saturdays in...