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More than 47,000 aspen trees, all connected by a single root system, make up the Kebler Pass aspen stand in the Colorado high country. Credit: EcoFlight

What Conservation Coalitions Have Learned from an Aspen Tree

By Zoë Rom

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees in California’s Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

A Walk in the Woods With My Brain on Fire: Spring

Text and photos by David Sassoon

Volunteers plant a mix of native species trees in efforts to reforest abandoned coal mine lands of Appalachia in London, Kentucky. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Study Shows Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed

By Moriah McDonald

A prescribed burn for longleaf pines on Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle. Military bases have some of the largest contiguous tracts of longleaf pines. Credit: Alexis Feysa/The Longleaf Alliance

Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities

By Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com

Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix, Arizona appears on a monitor as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on extreme heat July 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. During the event Biden announced additional actions to protect communities from the effects of extreme heat. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

 Q&A: After its Hottest Summer On Record, Phoenix’s Mayor Outlines the City’s Future

By Wyatt Myskow

A tree grows in Birmingham, one of dozens planted in the East Thomas neighborhood before the World Games in 2022. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

A Tree Grows in Birmingham

By Lee Hedgepeth

Climate activists stand outside the European Parliament to demonstrate in support of the Nature Restoration Law. Credit: Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images

European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law

By Bob Berwyn

Children look at the branches of a weeping beech as they enjoy the sunny weather in the Public Garden in Boston. on March 30, 2011). Credit: Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

America’s Iconic Beech Trees Are Under Attack

By Grant Segall

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

Pakistani men rest in the shade of trees during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

To Reduce Mortality From High Heat in Cities, a New Study Recommends Trees

By Danish Bajwa

Visitors look at the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree, a Red Spruce from Pisgah Ranger National Forest in North Carolina, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 5, 2022. Credit: Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

The Capitol Christmas Tree Provides a Timely Reminder on Environmental Stewardship This Holiday Season

By Emma Ricketts

New research shows that protected forests with dense canopies are warming more slowly than nearby forests without protection, which buffers plant and animals living near the ground from global warming impacts. Photo Credit: Bob Berwyn

Study Shows Protected Forests Are Cooler

By Bob Berwyn

Tree plantings in Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

Countries Want to Plant Trees to Offset Their Carbon Emissions, but There Isn’t Enough Land on Earth to Grow Them

By Katie Surma

Toronto Mayor John Tory and Councillor Michelle Holland dig as they joined hundreds of others at Warden Woods in the Warden and St. Clair area to plant 500 trees for Earth Day. Credit: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Championing Its Heritage, Canada Inches Toward Its Goal of Planting 2 Billion Trees

By David Shribman

A Baltimore resident washes her hair in a fountain at Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30, 2021, as a heat wave threatens to make it the city's hottest day of the year. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

From the Middle East to East Baltimore, a Johns Hopkins Professor Works to Make the City More Climate-Resilient

By Aman Azhar

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers analyze glacial melt on July 10, 2013 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Tuna for Vegans, Battery Technology and Climate Drives a Tree-Killer to Higher Climes

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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