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

Fast-growing trees can add character and color to your home's landscape relatively quickly, but those varieties often require full sun to add height so quickly. However, there are plenty of ...

Evergreens are prized for their year-round greenery and texture, but they can also provide shade for your yard. The evergreen family extends beyond conifers and includes any tree that keeps its green ...

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

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

A city agency is replacing palms with oaks along key downtown streets. “We didn’t realize how expensive planting trees could ...

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

The city of Sanibel’s Natural Resources Department reported that when people think of Florida, they often think of palm trees ...

The southeast lost a lot of shade last year. It seems like adding insult to injury, when, after the massive recovery from bad storms is finally completed, we are left with relentless, scorching, ...

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species ...