VERMILLION, S.D. – Federal officials say they plan to cut down some white spruce trees in the Black Hills to help limit damage from wildfires and allow other tree species to grow. The Spruce ...

A plan to cool the world could see leaves turned black. Photo: neiljs In our ever-warming world, some scientists, like 1988 Nobel prize-winning biochemist Hartmut Michel, think that plants could ...

marking them as risky investments because residents were Black. Today, they are some of the hottest parts of town in the summer, with few trees and an abundance of heat-trapping pavement.