This hands-on activity will connect your child with the trees in her backyard and neighborhood. Aside from being big and beautiful, trees serve a very important purpose on our planet. Can your child ...

“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...

When I tell people I’m an environmental psychologist, they often assume that means I am a “tree hugger” and they are not entirely wrong. But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding ...

“The Tree Book: Superior Selections for Landscapes, Streetscapes, and Gardens” by Michael A. Dirr and Keith S. Warren ($79.95, Timber Press): “We love trees,” declare the authors in the first words of ...

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This story is part of Grist’s Summer Dreams arts and culture series, a weeklong exploration of how popular fiction can influence our environmental reality. If you have warm, fuzzy memories of reading ...

Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again. Peel away the hard, rough bark and there is a living document, history ...