What in the World Are NASA Moon Trees?
Trees connect us scientifically, environmentally, and culturally. We all know that trees are vital to our planet’s health. As trees grow, they absorb carbon from…
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NASA Uses Powerful Supercomputers and AI to Map Earth’s Trees, Discovers Billions of Trees in West African Drylands
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…
Scientists Unravel How and Why Amazon Trees Die & Why Tree Mortality Is Increasing
The capacity of the Amazon forest to store carbon in a changing climate will ultimately be determined by how fast trees die – and what…
Biomass of World’s Largest Trees Measured for the First Time Using Laser Technology
Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for the first time, records a new study by…
Larger Trees More Likely to Die From Drought in the Amazon – Small Trees Offer Hope for Rainforests
Small trees that grow up in drought conditions could form the basis of more drought-resistant rainforests, new research suggests. Severe and long-lasting droughts are becoming…
New Research: Trees Absorb Less Carbon Dioxide As the World’s Temperature Rises
Warming Will Reduce Trees’ Ability to Slow Climate Change New research suggests that the most abundant trees in North America absorb less carbon dioxide as…
Scientists Find Genes to Save Ash Trees From Deadly Beetle That Is Expected to Kill Billions of Trees Worldwide
An international team of scientists have identified candidate resistance genes that could protect ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a deadly pest that…
New Water Mold Threatening Christmas Trees Discovered by Scientists Accidentally
Grown as Christmas trees, Fraser firs are highly prized for their rich color and pleasant scent as well as their ability to hold their needles….
Scientists Surprised: Trees Are Sources of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide
A recently published study, completed by researchers from the University of Helsinki together with Dr Katerina Machacova, a visiting scholar, demonstrates that boreal forests of…
Impact of Large-Scale Tree Death on Carbon Storage Shown
Large-scale ‘disturbances’, including fires, harvesting, windstorms and insect outbreaks, which kill large patches of forest, are responsible for more than a tenth of tree death…
The Surprising Role of Dust in Mountain Ecosystems
A new study led by University of Wyoming scientists reveals that trees growing atop granite in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains rely on nutrients from…
Manipulating Cell Division Will Help Grow Trees Bigger and Faster
A newly published study details how to make trees grow bigger and faster, which could increase supplies of renewable resources and help trees cope with…
Cloud Forest Trees Depend on Fog
Trees in Costa Rica, as well as a number of plant species, in the tropical cloud forests quench their thirst by directly ingesting fog droplets…
Bacterial Disease Threatens Coconut Gene Bank
A bacterial disease outbreak is threatening a collection of 3,200 coconut palms in the South Pacific. This gene bank is located in Papua New Guinea…
UK’s 90 Million Ash Trees Are Likely to be Wiped Out
The UK’s new plan that will deal with ash disease might not come in time, as most of the country’s 90 million ash trees are…
Resurrecting the American Chestnut Tree
American chestnut trees are hard to breed but easy to kill. Scientists are trying to see if a hybrid of the Chinese and American chestnut…
Puzzling Radiation Bursts Recorded in Tree Rings 1,200 Years Ago
1,200 years ago, tree rings recorded an abnormally large radiation burst. It’s even more mysterious since this spike in carbon-14 levels indicates a massive cosmic…
Evolutionary History of Cypress Tree Reflects the Breakup of Pangaea
New research from biologists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich examines the evolutionary history of the cypress tree, finding that their origins can be traced…