Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

The United States is packed with spectacular national forests, and these special spots contain some of the most unique trees found anywhere on the planet.

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

NEW YORK -- It's a tough time to be a tree. For this Earth Day, National Geographic has focused its lens on humanity's relationship with the world's 3 trillion trees and 10 billion acres of forest, ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

Young tropical forests can regrow twice as fast with enough nitrogen, dramatically increasing carbon capture, according to a ...

U.S. forests have stored unprecedented levels of carbon in recent years, driven by a mix of climate forces and human land-use ...

Across the American West, what looks like a leafy success story of fast-growing shade and windbreaks is doubling as a vast, ...

The world’s forests are shrinking. TIME recently published a series titled “Why The Amazon Rain Forest Is Almost Gone,” while The Washington Post warned that deforestation brings the Amazon closer ...

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...