Tag: Trees
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...
Termites love global warming – the pace of their wood munching...
Alexander Cheesman, James Cook University; Amy Zanne, University of Miami, and Lucas Cernusak, James Cook University
When we consider...
How forests lost 8,000 years of stored carbon in a few...
Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame
“Plant a tree” seems to be the go-to answer to climate change concerns...
Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees,...
Yuyu Zhou, Iowa State University
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Trees aren’t a climate change cure-all – 2 new studies on...
William R.L. Anderegg, University of Utah
When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees,...
Redwood trees have two types of leaves, scientists find – a...
Alana Chin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Coast redwoods are amazing trees that scientists have studied for generations....
How a hurricane fueled wildfires in the Florida Panhandle
David Godwin, University of Florida
The wildfires that broke out in the Florida Panhandle in early March 2022 were...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
