Tag: Trees
Cities can help migrating birds on their way by planting more...
Frank La Sorte, Cornell University
Millions of birds travel between their breeding and wintering grounds during spring and autumn migration, creating one of the greatest...
Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
Caroline S. Chaboo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Biologists have long known that rainforest treetops...
Across the world, trees are growing faster, dying younger – and...
Roel Brienen, University of Leeds and Emanuel Gloor, University of Leeds
As the world warms and the atmosphere becomes increasingly fertilised with carbon dioxide, trees...
If you’re not getting enough nature during the lockdown, try bringing...
Kevin Nute, University of Hawaii
Pandemics change everything, including the way we design buildings.
After the 1918 Spanish flu and the scourge of tuberculosis, there was...
Christmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change...
James Robert Farmer, Indiana University
If you’re shopping for a live Christmas tree this year, you may have to search harder than in the past....
Christmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change...
James Robert Farmer, Indiana University
If you’re shopping for a live Christmas tree this year, you may have to search harder than in the past....
Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year
Emily Moran, University of California, Merced
If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with...
Adapting cities to a hotter world: 3 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Heat waves can be deadly, especially when they combine high temperatures with elevated humidity levels that make the air feel even...