This is an expanded version of an article that ran on Yale e360 on October 3, 2011: A Revolutionary Technology is Unlocking Secrets of the Forest. High above the Amazon rainforest in Peru, a team of ...

A research team at the University of Alberta is looking into why some trees in Alberta are more resilient when faced with drought, disease and the risk of wildfires by sequencing tree genomes. A ...

Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of ...

The scientific consensus is that the world will soon realize the dreaded 1.5°C increase, a milestone experts have long believed to be a tipping point in climate change. We often hear about global ...

It has long been a concern that Goa’s green cover could be rapidly reducing , and that the loss isn’t being balanced with new trees. As an answer to this common worry, an Aldona-based company has ...

The City of Cape Town’s recreation and parks department has completed a tree mapping project – a first in South Africa. The pilot project started in June last year and will provide extensive data on ...

Terrestrial ecosystems are defined in large part by their woody plants. Grasslands, shrublands, savannahs, woodlands and forests represent a series of gradations in tree and shrub density, from ...

A new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests helped scientists discover billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and lays the groundwork for more accurate ...

On December 20, Gen Zs and millennials were among those who gathered at the Biodiversity Heritage Site (BHS) at Ganeshkhind ...