Get ready to applaud brown, dying English ivy clinging to many of the George Washington Memorial Parkway’s trees, many people hope. At a Jan. 21 National Park Service training for 45 anti-ivy ...

To solar or not to solar? That is the question for this latest episode of our monthly series Nature Quest. For listener Darcey Hughes, installing... Which is more environmentally friendly: trees or ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

U.S. forests have stored more carbon in the past two decades than at any time in the last century, an increase attributable to a mix of natural factors and human activity, finds a new study. To ...

The Spectacular Regrowth of New England’s Forests California’s First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running. Environmentalists Are Still Trying To Stop It. New Power Plants for Data Centers Would ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For decades, the case for saving tropical forests has been cast in terms of carbon. Trees sequester vast quantities of it; razing them pumps more ...

Katahdin hair sheep taking refuge under white pines that were intentionally left by Alex Caskey in the pasture for shade, on Barred Owl Brook Farm. Megan Bush plants rows of winter squash among mixed ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

For International Women’s Day, Mongabay puts a spotlight on a community forest restoration effort to protect Ghana’s shea trees, which are economically and ecologically important species for the ...

President Donald Trump is pushing federal agencies to expand timber harvests. He issued an executive order March 1 ordering the secretary of the interior, the secretary of agriculture and the chief of ...