Researchers ultimately discovered that 29 percent of tree cover in Africa is found outside areas previously classified as woodlands or forests — such as in croplands and grassland. Such precise ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million hectares (Mha)—has been consistently overlooked by global forest monitoring ...

Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of ...

The scientific consensus is that the world will soon realize the dreaded 1.5°C increase, a milestone experts have long believed to be a tipping point in climate change. We often hear about global ...

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A worker prepares for tree planing in Mount Gede Pangrango National Park, Indonesia. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Restoring tree cover is now firmly established as a strategy for removing carbon from the ...

It took one drone, 300 million laser data points and seven teams of students on foot to map Wake Forest University's trees. Led by Ovidiu Csillik, an assistant professor of remote sensing in the ...

Georgia Tech researchers developed new statewide canopy assessment tools to help urban planners, policymakers, and communities make data-informed decisions for climate resilience.

As B.C. cities grapple with rising summer temperatures, a new tool developed by the University of British Columbia is aiming to change how cities plant their urban trees. The pilot project, called ...