Tag: Trees
How do spices get their flavor?
Beronda L. Montgomery, Grinnell College
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Arbor Day: Why planting trees isn’t enough
Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz and Pedro Brancalion, Universidade de São Paulo
For 151 years, Americans...
Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when...
Richard B. Primack, Boston University; Benjamin R. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, and Tara K. Miller, Boston University
For short-lived...
Once the Callery pear tree was landscapers’ favorite – now states...
Ryan W. McEwan, University of Dayton
When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And...
The West’s iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires...
Kimberley Davis, United States Forest Service; Jamie Peeler, University of Montana, and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Wildfires and...
Biden restores roadless protection to the Tongass, North America’s largest rainforest
Beverly Law, Oregon State University
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably...
Christmas trees can stay fresh for weeks – a well-timed cut...
Curtis VanderSchaaf, Mississippi State University
Every year somewhere between 25 million and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in...
Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest...
Shane Coffield, NASA and James Randerson, University of California, Irvine
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
