News Stories relating to "trees"

Most of us have never heard of about tree power, but it turns out that it's there, hiding in the shadows, in small but measurable quantities. A group of researchers tested this by using their local trees to run an electronic circuit. Will forests someday replace windfarms?

Researcher Babak Parviz says, "As far as we know this is the...

For some things - Living trees are a vital part of the earth but fake ones can be important too. Engineers want to plant a forest of 100,000 "artificial trees" within the next 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world's greenhouse gases by capturing the CO2 from the air through a filter. The greenhouse gas would then be removed...

We know that global warming causes more hurricanes, but do trees have anything to do with global warming?

Biologist Jeffrey Chambers discovered that the losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on Gulf Coast forest trees were enough to cancel out a year's worth of new tree growth in other parts of the country. And trees absorb carbon...

But Not the Way You Think - Pollution in New York City is affecting trees?it's making them grow bigger than the same kind of trees growing in the country. Ecologist Jillian Gregg says, "City-grown pollution, and ozone in particular, is tougher on country trees."

Ground-level ozone is created by the action of sunlight on...