National Audubon Society

Dead Trees Support a Bounty of Birdlife, but Preserving Them Isn’t Always Clear Cut

We meander through the woods, the whine of mosquitoes in our ears. Mendes plays owl calls—they sound like the squeaks of a ...
Medicine Buffalo

Joyce Hwang's latest “habitecture” project uses dead tree to give new life to Australian landscape

What do you do with a dead, 400-year-old tree? If your specialty is animal architecture, you turn it into a living habitat/art project. That’s what University at Buffalo architect Joyce Hwang did in ...
Chicago Tribune

Spooky trees are full of life

Dark against the autumn sky, its branches broken and twisted, with mysterious black holes and cracks in its bark, a dead tree might seem spooky. But to many animals, it’s home. Bats, screech owls, ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Dead trees in streams keep a surprising amount of carbon out of the atmosphere

A new study from the University of Vermont finds streams play an important role in storing climate-warming carbon. Dead trees keep a surprising amount of carbon out of the atmosphere when they fall ...
WGAL

Effort to replace dead and unhealthy trees at Flight 93 memorial expected to take decades

I’M GABRIELLE THOMAS ALONGSIDE METEOROLOGIST MARYELLEN PANN MARYLAND. WHEN I RETURNED BACK FROM VACATION. I LOVE THE WEATHER, BUT THAT DIDN’T LAST FOR LONG. NO IT DIDN’T. SEEING SOME RAIN TODAY AND ...
SFGate

Mulch Volcanoes: How One Landscaping Mistake Can Damage Your Trees and Curb Appeal

Homeowners have complicated relationships with trees. Most people know how important trees are to our environment, our health, and the landscape on which their properties sit. At the same time, trees ...