Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...

Arkansas has a greater percentage of urban tree canopy than any other state west of the Mississippi River. That's according to TreeCanopy.us, a project of the Arbor Day Foundation, the U.S. Forest ...

Arlington’s tree canopy may be on a slight upswing, according to county officials. But that doesn’t necessarily mean there are more trees in the community. A newly-released, taxpayer-funded analysis ...

In 2007, after a run of hurricanes, the City of Miami joined other local municipalities by signing on to an ambitious goal: roughly doubling total citywide tree canopy to 30 percent by 2020. The ...