Photos from the field: capturing the grandeur and heartbreak of Tasmania’s giant trees
5 min read · Mar 30th · Jennifer Sanger · These trees are too important to be destroyed in the name of the forestry industry. This is why my husband Steve Pearce and I…
YouTube stars raise over $6m to plant trees around the world
1 min read · 36 saves · 2019-10-29 · Jessica Murray · More than 600 creators and social media influencers join campaign to plant 20m trees
All the Trees Will Die, and Then So Will You
6 min read · Paywall possible · 29 saves · From 2017 · A beetle-and-fungus combo is about to wipe out millions of Southern California trees—and that means people's lives are at stake, too.
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
10 min read · Paywall possible · 98 saves · 2019-10-31 · Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves,…
Help Us Plant 20 Million Trees
4 min read · 109 saves · 2019-10-25 · The official site of #TeamTrees. One dollar plants a tree...
People Are Writing Thousands of Emails to Trees
~18 min read · Paywall possible · 49 saves · From 2016 · When the city of Melbourne linked email accounts to trees so people could report problems, they wrote love letters to the trees instead.
Learn ML Algorithms by coding: Decision Trees
8 min read · 26 saves · From 2018 · Implementation of Decision Trees
German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too
7 min read · Paywall possible · 44 saves · From 2017 · Peter Wohlleben, a career ranger, has topped best-seller lists with “The Hidden Life of Trees,” describing trees as social beings that communicate on the…
The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated
1 min read · 55 saves · 2019-07-10 · Maria Popova · “Trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see.”
A biologist believes that trees speak a language we can learn
6 min read · Paywall possible · 57 saves · From 2017 · Humans have long recognized the song of trees.
London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle As Much Pollution As 275 Regular Trees
1 min read · 224 saves · Jan 7th · Leytonstone has some excellent new arrivals, a pair of City Trees that eat pollution, produce oxygen, and clean up the capital's filthy air.
Scientists uncover a 60,000-year-old forest underwater and think its preserved trees may help pioneer new medicines
3 min read · 14 saves · Apr 7th · Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a…