The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section is ...

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees—mostly due to insects and disease—have caused the ...

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...

The push toward net zero presents significant opportunities for businesses to innovate, grow and align with evolving market ...

The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to ...

D espite accounting for around 0.025 percent of all mass on the planet, carbon is vital for life on Earth. This element, ...

Startup Chestnut Carbon has raised $160 million to plant, restore and manage trees on degraded farmland, generating carbon credits for customers that include Microsoft Corp.  The company's goal: ...

Here's what to know about spotting a dawn redwood in Michigan or planting your own. After the tree was discovered in China, the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University funded the collection and ...

Are you the owner of a big dawn redwood? It could be eligible for inclusion on the Michigan Big Tree Register. This sequoia species is known to grow up to 140 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter ...

The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle focused on carbon and how it is sequestered in and moves between different reservoirs in the Earth system. Wildfires can increase lake carbon ...