Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago, don’t let healthy trees be cut down without good reason

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Post and Courier

Tree health correlates to mental health, study shows. So how is Charleston’s urban forest faring?

A live oak sprawls over a street corner and under a powerline in the Ansonborough neighborhood in Charleston. As the tree aged, the trunk split ways. Half of it grew up and over to the right, and the ...
AZ Central

How healthy forests could prevent larger wildfires and help slow climate change

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of The Nature Conservancy forest ecologist and study co-author Travis Woolley. New research suggests preventing ...
Courthouse News Service

Bark beetles reduce healthy forests into kindling — but scientists say that’s good news

Bark beetles evolved to feed on specific types of trees, leaving behind dried-out shells, as seen at Lake Granby in Granby, Colorado on May 31, 2025. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) UNCOMPAHGRE ...
Dcist Daily

Local Forests Are Failing To Produce The Next Generation Of Trees

In forests in the eastern U.S., it can be easy to miss the fact that things are going awry. Elsewhere, in places like the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada, the signs may be more obvious: a whole ...
Eugene Weekly

Old-Growth Forests and Oregon’s Healthy Ecosystems

Oregon’s forests were once full of old-growth, but today, less than 10 percent of old-growth trees still stand, environmental advocacy group Oregon Wild estimates. Despite their essential role in ...
The Post-Journal

Organization Helping To Promote Healthy Forests

An organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of forests is continuing to promote healthy forests in Western New York and throughout the state. The New York Forest Owners Association is ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Let’s identify — and save — Chicago’s healthy, mature trees

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MassLive

How urban forests will keep Boston cool - and more healthy

In the city of Boston, there are approximately 43,711 trees on publicly owned land. An estimated 60% of Boston’s trees are on private property, bringing the total to well over 100,000 trees within ...
Science Daily

Tropical forests can't recover naturally without fruit-eating birds

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...
Yahoo

How healthy forests could prevent larger wildfires and help slow climate change

New research suggests preventing larger, hotter wildfires could help slow the release of planet-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and that there are forests in Arizona and the West where the ...