What have you learned about how climate change is affecting the city’s growing environment? To adapt to climate change, we have begun to procure more Southern species, which ultimately meansRead More
Tag: Trees
Faced with Catastrophic Floods, Turned to Mangrove Trees for Protection
LAKSHMIPUR, India — The women strapped their binoculars around their necks, secured their bright green saris, and boarded a motorboat to begin their weekly patrol in the Sundarbans, one ofRead More
Why Don’t All Lions Climb Trees?
Visit Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda or Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania and you’ll see something unusual: lions that climb trees and spend most of their lives restingRead More
Using Science and Celtic Wisdom to Save Trees (and Spirits)
In his forties, Dr. Beresford-Kroeger turned to writing, but it would take him ten years to find a publisher for the first manuscript. Since then, he has published eight books,Read More
Richard Powers Speaks for Trees
During a weekend visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, he saw a 1914 photograph of farm children in Germany and began to think about the birth of the machineRead More
Trees Talk Back in Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest’
The trees are deep in conversation across the street from my apartment in the Bronx on a sultry summer day. Trees, science tells us, are social creatures, and we doRead More
What Technology Can Reduce Heat Deaths? Trees.
At the same time, American cities are facing a heat crisis: the largest, twice the rate the planet as a whole. ‘It’s hard for us to think of trees asRead More
