In an age of dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental awareness tree protection plans are becoming increasingly important.  At the same time, trees can unfortunately become misplaced. Many properties and even whole communities have been constructed in areas with a very large native tree population, partly for the natural beauty [...]

The death toll in Texas has surpassed 300 million. The victims are some of the state’s oldest and quietest with names like Oak, Pecan, Ash, and Mesquite. The drought that has ravaged the tree population since 2011 is showing no signs of reprieve, and since the damage is largely retroactive, [...]

It’s no surprise that the demand for disposable chopstick in China would be high, but what is surprising is the toll this demand is taking on the country’s forests. According to recent reports, the demand has increased by 30 billion over the past few years, and in turn, is posing [...]

Brazil is reportedly going to create a census of its rainforest trees by counting each in an attempt to better learn how to conserve its trees. When you think about it, it is a difficult task to know when you’re losing trees, until it’s blatantly obvious, without having a headcount [...]

Three years ago, Timberland promised to plant 5 million trees in five years in Haiti. After teaming up with a local non-governmental organization, the Smallholder Farmers Alliance, Timberland has successfully planted 2.2 million trees in the rural region near Gonaives, Haiti. They are slated to plan a million more trees in 2013, 2014, and 2015. [...]

EcoPaper, a leading provider of fine tree-free environmental paper products, has a new product to offer consumers:  the New Generation EcoPaper 100% Sugar Cane Tree- Free Multi-purpose Pure White Copy/Printer paper. Manufactured to meet the highest standards of quality and is truly an eco-friendly copy paper, EcoPaper’s newest product reportedly [...]

Until recently: If you were a Brazilian landowner who broke the law by clearing your land of native forestry, planting trees was your punishment. But Brazil has reportedly turned to the digital world to make things right in the environmental realm. According to the Associated Press (AP), the country has [...]

If Christmas lights have been the bane of your holiday, then there just may be good news on the horizon: Genetic engineers have come up with a method where your Christmas tree could grow its own lights. Sound more like science fiction than reality? Read on. Five postgraduate students at [...]

A new report has revealed that some of the world’s oldest trees are dying at a fast rate. The study, conducted by three of the world’s leading ecologists, was published in the journal Science. The devastating finding was that trees were dying due to forest fires, drought, high temperatures, logging and [...]

There really is nothing quite like a real tree to release that magical aroma of the season and breathe life into your Christmas decorations. But choosing which one to buy is harder than it may sound as there are so many varieties available that have their own unique qualities. And [...]