trees

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees’ ability to store large quantities of carbon...

The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and...

Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, and extreme weather affecting forest management.

A new study led by Cambridge University confirms that planting hedges between roadsides and school playgrounds can dramatically reduce children’s...

The first double-blind experiment analysing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially...

Researchers have shown that over the past two thousand years, volcanoes have played a larger role in natural temperature variability than previously...

What connects a series of volcanic eruptions and severe summer cooling with a century of pandemics, human migration and the rise and fall of...

An international group of researchers has dated a large volcanic eruption in Iceland to within a few months. The eruption, which is the oldest...