16-07-07 Imagine an agriculture field. Most are planted with row upon row of tidy cash crops. Now imagine that same field with rows of trees between the rows of crops. This forested field concept is called alley cropping. Alley cropping helps farmers diversi...

16-06-30 Human use of artificial light is causing Spring to come at least a week early in the UK, researchers at the University of Exeter in Cornwall have found. New research led by a team of biologists based at the Universitys Penryn campus highlights for t...

16-04-29 Forest scientists have found an unexpected silver lining to the insect outbreaks that have ravaged millions of trees across western North America. While insect outbreaks leave trees looking like matchsticks, a new University of Vermont-led study fin...

16-02-16 Zoo Mark Irwin In her old age, Mother enjoys going to the zoo as the trees let loose their yellow leaves and stand like furniture among the grazing animals who stare from a long distance. Often I think this could be a story she's telling me as we wa...

16-02-03 New tools for harvesting wind energy may soon look less like giant windmills and more like tiny leafless trees. A project at The Ohio State University is testing whether high-tech objects that look a bit like artificial trees can generate renewable...

16-01-06 IN a little time, however, no more canoes appearing, the fear of their coming wore off; and I began to take my former thoughts of a voyage to the main into consideration; being likewise assured by Friday's father that I might depend upon good usage...

15-12-30 California's forests are home to the planet's oldest, tallest and most-massive trees. New research from Carnegie's Greg Asner and his team reveals that up to 58 million large trees in California experienced severe canopy water loss between 2011 and...

15-12-03 We did not come to remain whole. 我们来不是为全身而退， We came to lose our leaves like the trees, 我们来是为了像树一样落叶， Trees that start again. - Robert Bly 像树一样重新开始。伯特布莱 No human being can really understand another, and no one ca...

15-11-25 Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate U.S. forests, according to a new NASA study. The findings could help scientists better understand the impact that t...

15-11-13 The Marrow Michelle O'Sullivan There's a gleam to the trees and meadow that verges on something heartsick; convent quiet, and rich as a jeweller's window. Facing the lake-water is your bull. He's concentrated and arcane, his Dutch yellows make him l...