Planting trees has long been touted as a major tool in the fight against climate change. And on the surface, that makes a lot ...

By Maya L. Kapoor In early springtime in the Mojave Desert, Joshua trees provide one of the few foods available to many of ...

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy ...

“In Search of the Canary Tree” is an effort to push past the vulnerability, fear and helplessness that many — scientists included — feel in the face of climate change.

Researchers take core samples from trees to study their growth rings and say they see signs that humans’ influence on the climate affected drought risk in the early 1900s.

In a landmark meeting last year of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland, 141 nations, including the U.S., agreed to “halt and reverse forest loss ...

Here's how climate change drives harsher storms, extreme heat, and flooding in places like Kansas City, according to climate ...

Climate change make trees more likely to fall. Nina Bassuk, professor of urban horticulture at Cornell University, explains that climate change can kill tree cells through a confluence of ...

The impact of climate change on the state is as varied as its landscape. From vast forests and rolling farms that line the ...

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

Some studies suggest that the Seattle area’s climate will more closely resemble Northern California’s by 2050, so I’m planting that region’s trees, too. Climate change is scrambling the ...

Fungi, parasites, root rot: Climate change is increasing the risk of trees weakening and dying. Falling trees have increased power outages nationwide, which threaten public health and safety.