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The biggest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store the most carbon — and they also face the greatest threat from humansThe Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sinkHuge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
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Arctic blast probably won't cause trees to explode in the cold — but here's what happens if and when they do go boomAn exploding tree claim has gone viral as the U.S. brace for an Arctic blast that will send temperatures plunging, triggering a massive and long-lasting winter storm.
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Avenue of the Baobabs: Madagascar's natural monument with dozens of 'mother of the forest' treesThe Avenue of the Baobabs preserves the remnant trees of an ancient tropical forest on Madagascar.
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China's Great Green Wall: The giant artificial forest designed to slow the expansion of 2 desertsSince 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years to complete its "Great Green Wall."
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Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate — and trees won't survive that for longThe Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.
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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distributionHuge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.
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Do figs really have dead wasps in them?Does every fig you eat really have a dead wasp inside?
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Amazon rainforest trees are resisting climate change by getting fatter from CO2 in the atmosphereTree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought.
