Framingham's Garden in the Woods highlights native Massachusetts plants that attract pollinators, thrive in tough conditions, ...

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase ...

Planted last spring but burned in last month's Camp House Fire, The Nature Conservancy returned to a plot of land along ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

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A Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today. But it's not ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

There are several ways to protect your trees from southwest injury. Painting the exposed trunk with white latex paint diluted ...

Taking it off-site to clean can cost three times as much. Tending the plants doing phytoremediation comes to about a nickel a cubic meter. The financial incentive can also lead to environmental ...

Now, researchers and mussel farmers are pinning their hopes on a plan to restore the contaminated Mar Piccolo through phytoremediation, a process where plants are used to absorb harmful toxins.

Yes, says a research team. Specific plant species could be used as cover plants for phytoremediation, i.e. to relief agricultural land from adverse pollutant impacts. In their article, the ...

But agriculture could also benefit from this method, says Marie Muehe: "The use of selected cover plants for phytoremediation is a natural, climate-neutral way to improve and maintain soil health.