Autumn brings renewed vigor to the garden. Trees ignite in fiery hues. Asters and sunflowers erupt with autumn blooms. Even our vegetable gardens regain productivity. The crisp nights and cool days of ...

With 425 heat-associated deaths confirmed so far, 2023 is likely to have the deadliest heat season since Maricopa County started its current tracking system in 2012. But a new tree-planting effort ...

New studies raise issues that complicate the ambitious goals to use mass tree-planting to fight climate change. The researchers warn that in some cases, carbon-offset tree plantations could reduce ...

To fight climate change, companies and nonprofits have been promoting worldwide planting campaigns. Getting to a trillion is easier said than done. Villagers hired by Eden Reforestation Projects ...

Global tree-planting campaigns have reached fad-like proportions over the past decade, and it’s easy to understand their appeal. Healthy forests help in the fight against climate change by absorbing ...

On a single day in 2019, Ethiopia famously planted 350 million trees. The same year, Turkey planted 11 million of its own. Just as fast as tree-planting has taken hold, so has the backlash. Some ...

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"If no one had ever said, 'Plant a trillion trees,' I think we'd have been in a lot better space." Taking the stand at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, Crowther spelled out the ...

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Tree-planting schemes are common these days, and they’re touted as one of the best tools we have to combat climate change, species extinction, and other environmental crises. But natural regeneration ...

Those are the words of Felix Finkbeiner, who at 24, has now spent the majority of his life focused on fighting climate change through tree planting and forest restoration. And he’s trying to get the ...