Tag: forest

September 15, 2022 at 8:04 pm

How China Tried to Turn the Desert Green (and Why it Went Wrong)

How China Tried to Turn the Desert Green (and Why it Went Wrong)

A plan to plant a wall of more than 66 billion trees 4,500 kilometers long to block desert expansion, shield against sand storms, and offset carbon emissions sounds great. So why did it fail?

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September 14, 2022 at 5:48 pm

How Humans Created the Pollen-Pocalypse

How Humans Created the Pollen-Pocalypse

Learn about the different tree “genders” and how the United States’ solution to a tree disease created increasingly bad allergies.

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June 4, 2022 at 7:39 pm

A Man Built a Little House in the Woods Out of Wooden Pallets

A Man Built a Little House in the Woods Out of Wooden Pallets

Have you ever wanted to live in a tiny house?

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May 12, 2020 at 1:34 pm

Nobody Captures the Mystical Wistman’s Wood Like Neil Burnell

Nobody Captures the Mystical Wistman's Wood Like Neil Burnell

Wistman’s Wood is a remote, high-altitude forest in Dartmoor, Devon, England

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August 22, 2019 at 12:04 pm

A Chilling Compilation of the Fires Currently Raging Across the Amazon

A Chilling Compilation of the Fires Currently Raging Across the Amazon

This needs to stop

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August 21, 2019 at 4:55 pm

The Amazon is Burning

The Amazon is Burning

NASA’s Earth Observatory shows us the view from space

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April 15, 2019 at 5:35 pm

There’s a Real-Life Enchanted Forest and It’s In Dartmoor, England

There's a Real-Life Enchanted Forest and It's In Dartmoor, England

Wistman’s Wood is a remote, high-altitude forest plucked straight from a fantasy novel

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December 13, 2018 at 11:35 am

This Bonsai Forest by Masahiko Kimura is Incredible

This Bonsai Forest by Masahiko Kimura is Incredible

A beautiful Hinoki forest planting by Bonsai master Masahiko Kimura

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November 12, 2018 at 11:58 pm

Standing in the Middle of a Huge Pond That Drains Every Dry Season

Standing in the Middle of a Huge Pond That Drains Every Dry Season

The pond ‘sinks’ with the water table and can go from full to empty in a matter of weeks

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August 24, 2018 at 11:13 am

Bluebells in Pryor’s Wood, England

Bluebells in Pryor's Wood, England

Pryor’s Wood is an 8.7 hectare nature reserve in Great Ashby, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire

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