MANGROVES, along with tidal marshes and seagrasses, are increasingly recognized as vital 'blue carbon' ecosystems. In tropical and subtropical coastlines, they are among the most productive natural ...

Based southeast of Olympia in Roy, Washington, Silvaseed collects, cleans, catalogues and preserves seeds. It also raises ...

Dean Swift has gotten really good at spotting where squirrels hide their seeds. In the forests of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota, he looks for a moist shaded area with a small grove ...

Each year, U.S. cities lose an estimated 36 million trees to development, disease and old age, many of which ultimately end up in landfills. Losing these urban trees – known to help cool their ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.

When a truck delivery of pine cones arrives at a reforestation center in Davis, California run by California’s fire agency, it starts a monthslong process—just one step in the complicated work to ...

Since the beginning of the year, six communities in the East of the Marojejy-Anjanaharibe Sud-Tsaratanàna or COMATSA Forest Corridor in the Northern Highlands of Madagascar have been joining forces in ...

Urban areas in US cities are estimated to lose an average of 36 million trees every year. This results in economic losses of up to $786 million and risks having an adverse impact on already worsening ...

Many climate change plans include planting billions of trees to clean the air, protect water sources and cool down cities. But a new study published in Bioscience found that U.S. tree nurseries don’t ...

Forests have a critical role to play in capturing and storing carbon from the Earth's atmosphere -- but some models exaggerate their carbon removal potential by almost three-fold, according to a ...

A central ceremony marking the 74th National Tree Day was held on Thursday at the Bayt Halibiya forest site in the Lattakia ...

A tree can feed a family, protect a home, and educate a child. Reforestation is social development in green disguise. When we talk ...