Because trees can cool cities by providing shade and evaporating water into the atmosphere, greening city streets is an often-touted strategy for climate change adaptation. But trees provide ...

Trees and greenspace can drive down urban temperatures ... This is called transpiration, and it helps cool the air around leaves. Water can also evaporate from soil and other surfaces.

The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, ...

Italy is determined to save Patriarch, a millennial olive tree which the forest fires in Sardinia have devoured, but has mobilized tens of experts to try and recover this rare botanic antiquity.