When Claire Cameron planted black spruce trees in the 1990s, she thought she was saving the planet. But as wildfires ravaged parts of Canada this past summer, she wonders how many of those saplings ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. In the 1980s, charities proposed planting more trees to halt “desertification” in the Sahara Desert. This involved ...

Global tree-planting campaigns have reached fad-like proportions over the past decade, and it's easy to understand their appeal. Healthy forests help in the fight against climate change by absorbing ...

LIKE many cities, Kuala Lumpur faces the harsh realities of rapid development, where trees and green spaces are often sacrificed in the name of urbanisation. The tree-planting programme, initiated to ...

Rather than benefiting the environment, large-scale tree planting may do the opposite, two new studies have found. One paper says that financial incentives to plant trees can backfire and reduce ...