Tiny forests mimic natural woodlands, improving urban air quality through dense, diverse native plant growth. Trees and ...

A separate project found that the amount of carbon that new forests can absorb may be overestimated. The key message from both papers is that planting trees is not a simple climate solution.

Tropical forest plants regenerate either from sources from within the site (seed bank, resprouting from roots and stems, or remnant vegetation) or colonization by seeds dispersed from outside the ...