Louisiana Considered: Income Tax Credits, Planting Trees Published April 23, 2021 at 3:18 PM CDT Listen • 24:30 ...

The trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle, and have done so for millennia. Recently, humans have thrown things off a bit by getting rid of lots of trees and digging up a lot more carbon.

Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. We climbed into the NPR archives to find some of our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction, and kids' lit — get ready to branch out.

Trees are needed to provide shade and absorb runoff. "So that development going in — if it's lot edge to lot edge — we're going to see an amplification of urban heat," Shandas says.

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...