trees

In the dusty, windswept lands of Niger, there once stood a lonely acacia tree. Caravans passed beneath its spiky branches — the last stop before the endless sea of sand. Known as the Tree of Ténéré…

An ambitious, African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile forest wall to fight the climate crisis has received a commitment of support from one of the world’s most prolific tree-planters, The…

Efforts to map the Earth’s trees are growing – and could change our understanding of the planet’s health. When a team of international scientists set out to count every tree in a large swathe of…

Kerala villagers are reaping the benefits of a scheme that pays them to leave their trees rooted, reducing risk of deforestation. In the misty, hilly terrain of Wayanad, in the southern Indian state…

Species that grow faster could be better at pulling carbon from the atmosphere, but could also come with risks Armand Séguin planted his first genetically modified tree — a poplar — more than 20…

Nairobi - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi. The…

Languishing in the soft, silty mud, the living fossil looked as if it didn't have a care in the world as it feasted on the fish left stranded in the tidal mangrove pools of the Sungei Buloh wetlands…

The 2.5m-year-old tree would be first plant species protected by law in state as current habitat increasingly becomes less viable. The western Joshua tree will be considered for protection under the…

Dorcas Wakio Mugo is a student of Marine Resource Management at Technical University of Mombasa in Kenya. She is consigned to the fight against climate change, as a result she has opted to take a…

Report calls for more support if plan to plant 100m hectares of vegetation is to be realised. The world’s most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of Africa, has covered only 4% of…

During a trip to Cuba's Gardens of the Queen a few years ago, I found myself around small mangrove islands in an area called Boca Grande. Floating on clear, calm water, my travel group and I kicked…

Scientists claim widespread conservation can bring rewards if right policies are followed. Nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land area could be placed under environmental protections without…

A United Nations report says Africa and South America lost the most trees in the past decade, but the data don’t show the whole picture. The world’s total forest area is decreasing more slowly than…

Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down globally, and across Africa, deforestation rates has surpassed the global annual average of 0.8 percent.

Al Jazeera meets Senegalese in a race against effects of climate change. Climate change is causing the Sahel Desert to grow, but villagers are planting a vast wall of trees in a bid to save their…

The climate is changing, and like us, plants are having to adapt to survive.

‘Reforestation is essential but means nothing if we’re still watching the Amazon go up in smoke,’ says Greenpeace. Images of the Amazon being ravaged by wildfires has unified the public in shock and…

One move that takes little effort and no legislation could have a modest impact on the environment: your search engine.

A conservation group plans to buy the largest privately owned sequoia grove as the climate crisis threatens the species’ future. Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias.…

A Canadian city that once stood as the physical representation of the negative impact of extractive industries on the environment now embodies what regreening can achieve.  Since the late 1800s, the…