trees

Planting trees & shrubs on otherwise unused roadsides could help meet Paris climate goals, but not everyone thinks it’s a good idea…

Reading List

Celebrating the Trees & Landscapes of Central Park

E The Environmental Magazine Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, landscape, landscapes, New York City, Parks & Recreation, Parks Department, trees

Central Park: Trees & Landscapes is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of America’s most famous park, and features a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, botanical plates, and extraordinarily detailed maps.

Nalini Nadkarni. Credit: Bill Holsinger-Robinson, FlickrCC

Behind the Greens

Interview: Nalini Nadkarni

Ruth Wilson ants, Barbie, canopy, doll, ecologist, ecology, epiphytes, Evergreen State, forest, ICAN, Naturewear, Olympia, science, trees

I met Dr. Nalini Nadkarni over five years ago at a church service in Olympia, WA. Nadkarni, a forest ecologist at Evergreen State College, was delivering a sermon on trees – or more precisely, on human connections with trees. She is a scientist, not a minister; yet, it’s not unusual to find her giving sermons in […]

EarthTalk

Are the California redwoods in danger because of the drought?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer redwood, redwoods, Save the Redwoods League, sequoia, Sequoia National Park, tree, trees

Dear EarthTalk: Are the California redwoods in danger because of the drought? — Jesse Pollman, Seattle, WA California is home to two of the three redwood tree species: coast redwoods and giant sequoias. The coast redwood is the Earth’s tallest tree, growing more than 360 […]

EarthTalk

How is that being around trees & other plants can help us feel good?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer biophilia, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, CREAL, E.O. Wilson, Marc G. Berman, nature, plants, Stephen Kellert, tree, trees, U.S. Forest Service, Yale 360

Dear EarthTalk: How is that being around trees and other plants can help us feel good? — Amy Mola, Greenville, SC Trees are known to improve air quality by capturing six common air pollutants and toxic gases: ground-level ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur […]

Warming World

Our Trees: Cooling and Carbon Sequestration

Roddy Scheer Los Angeles, trees, urban

The Los Angeles Urban Forest program seeks to evaluate the benefits provided by trees including cooling and carbon sequestration through citizen science volunteering. In August 2014, 135 volunteers studied over 400 trees across greater LA through the efforts of Earthwatch Institute, Natural History Museum of LA County, UC Riverside, Amigos de los Rios, TreePeople, Heschel […]