Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With their natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide, trees are an important player in combating Earth's warming. But research ...

Trees are “coughing” as they’re struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air. A team of researchers led by Penn State assistant research professor of ...

Engineered “trees” are moving from lab sketches to steel and sorbent in the ground, promising to pull carbon dioxide directly ...

How can older trees help combat climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Climate Change hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated changes in woody ...

China's ambitious "Great Green Wall" project has transformed the arid edges of the Taklamakan Desert into a significant ...

Boston University environmental ecology professor Lucy Hutyra spends a lot of her time studying trees. She began her career working in tropical rainforests in Brazil, then switched to studying urban ...

This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Every few years, the world’s top scientists come up with hundreds of different scenarios, all aimed at limiting global warming to 2 degrees ...

After the Eaton and Palisades Fires destroyed thousands of trees that helped protect the air, a Southern California conservation group is urging caution when removing damaged trees. Altadena Green, a ...

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Carbon dioxide. CO 2. It fills the air you breathe out. It is the product of the violent oxidation of carbon that we call burning – and we’ve been burning a lot of carbon. The CO 2 accumulated in the ...