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Trees

‘Their Breath Was Captured in the Tree’

The author of “When Trees Testify” on the intertwined nature of America’s history, its trees and Black Americans.

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Botanist Beronda Montgomery is the author of “When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy.” Credit: Melissa Blackall/Radcliffe Institute
Dead trees burned by a wildfire span across the Manti-La Sal National Forest near Moab, Utah, in 2022. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Across Ecosystems, Dead Organisms Help Shape the Living World

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A photo shows trees lit golden by a mixture of light and fog.

Behind the Scenes: How Climate Change Is Reshaping Forests

By Kiley Price

Special cameras helped scientists pinpoint when a combination of heat and drought conditions cause changes in individual oak leaves. Credit: Alyssa Kullberg

How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

By Bob Berwyn

Richard Silliboy uses a machine to pound an ash log in his workshop. Once pounded, the log will divide into layers that can be separated and thinned into strips for basketmaking. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

By Sydney Cromwell

A man uses buckets of water to extinguish a wildfire that threatens his house in the Portuguese village of Antas on Aug. 15, 2025. Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Triggers a Chain Reaction of Disturbance in European Forests

By Bob Berwyn

TreesLouisville staffers Matt Thomas (left) and Mike Hayman plant an oak tree in Louisville, Ky., as part of an assisted tree migration effort. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Helping Trees—and a City—Outrace Climate Change

By James Bruggers

A view of Forest Park in Queens, New York City. The Natural Areas Conservancy will partner with the Forest Park Trust to enhance the area. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

New York City’s Forests Are Ailing. New Funding May Get at the Root of the Problem

By Lauren Dalban

A degraded area of the Amazon rainforest near Koatinemo Indigenous land in Brazil on June 12. Credit: Carlos Fabal/AFP via Getty Images

A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees

Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Rebecca Gentry lost more than 50,000 trees on her family’s ranch during the 2021 PF Fire near Hardin, Mont. Credit: Mast Reforestation

Is Burying the Trees Killed by Wildfires a Climate Solution?

By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Breadfruit grows in Laura, on a lofty tree. The height exposes the tree to the elements, particularly winds that blow off the Pacific Ocean. Credit: Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2025

Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On

By Thomas Heaton, Honolulu Civil Beat

A view of Prospect Park in the fall. Credit: Elizabeth Keegin Colley

Part of the New York City Park Experience: Joining the War on Invasives

By Naaja Flowers

Volunteers with Friends of Trees, which has operated in Portland since 1989, help to expand the city’s urban tree canopy. Credit: Courtesy of Friends of Trees

Portland’s Urban Tree Plans May Face a Withering in Federal Funds

By Anna McNulty

Since 2019, forest regions from the Chilean Coast to the Andes Mountains have turned brown as leaves lose their green color. Credit: Benito Rosende

In Chile, a Declining Forest Worries Scientists

By Andrés Muedano

A logging truck drives through a forest in Allagash, Maine. Credit: Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Using the ‘Magic’ of LiDAR to Map Maine’s Old-Growth Forests

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

An aerial view of the tower built by the Civilian Conservation Corps at the top of Flagg Mountain in Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Preserving Alabama’s Flagg Mountain, the Southernmost Appalachian Peak

By Dennis Pillion

Sam Votzke (left) demonstrates how she performs research work with her field assistant, Olivia Bond. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

How Johns Hopkins Scientists and Neighborhood Groups Model Climate Change in Baltimore

By Aman Azhar

Stephen Kropp, the founder of the nonprofit Legacy Forest Defense Coalition of Washington, has ramped up his mission of raising awareness about logging so-called “legacy forests” on Washington trust lands. Credit: Legacy Forest Defense Coalition

‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics

By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight

A Walk in the Woods with My Brain on Fire: Summer

Text and photos by David Sassoon

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