Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forests are vital to the health of our planet and provide numerous ecological, economic, and social resources. When people think ...

A Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today. But it's not easy to ensure the trees of today actually become the healthy, functioning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 31—The directive for the study, introduced by U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, was included in the 2023 omnibus spending bill ...

Did you ever see a clearcut mountainside and dream of waving a magic wand and bringing the trees back? Magic wands are in short supply, but with a little patience, you can enlist the help of Mother ...

MUSKEGON, MI - A “micro forest” growing in an urban area is creating a shady competition between plants, encouraging them to grow at a faster rate. The Marquette Micro Forest, located on Marquette ...

Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S. By Cara Buckley The tiny forest lives atop an old ...

Creating a garden in an overgrown acreage can be an awesome task. Creating gardens and a Zen Forest would be even more daunting. But George Klasson and Jane Bourgeois knew they could make a tranquil ...

As a whole, the University of Massachusetts has been working to become as ecologically friendly as possible for over a decade. This is a goal without a well-established finish line. It is the type of ...

The creation of Hawaii’s first national forest is possible with a new study to be conducted by the U.S. Forest Service. It would examine land on Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii island.