Tag: Trees
Arbor Day should be about growing trees, not just planting them
Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz and Pedro Brancalion, Universidade de São Paulo
For 149 years, Americans...
Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and...
Beronda L. Montgomery, Michigan State University
As a species, humans are wired to collaborate. That’s why lockdowns and remote...
Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating...
Emily Ury, Duke University
Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I...
Billions of cicadas may be coming soon to trees near you
John Cooley, University of Connecticut and Chris Simon, University of Connecticut
A big event in the insect world is...
January warm spells, March freezes: How plants manage the shift from...
Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Weather patterns across the U.S. have felt like a roller coaster ride for the...
Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is...
Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University
Protecting forests is an essential strategy in the fight...
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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The big idea
Biologists have long known that rainforest treetops...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
