1.5 million volunteers worked together to help reach a larger goal of reforesting the planet by 2030

Planted in 1625, this little bonsai tree survived the atomic bomb in Japan, and now sits in a museum in DC

According to legend, the extinct Judean date palm was the tree whose fronds made way for Jesus and his donkey on Palm Sunday. A botanist has literally resurrected it from an ancient seed.

This is probably the cutest “little free library” you’ve ever seen:

Lining city streets with trees reduces physiological symptoms of stress in humans. The thicker the tree cover, the lower the stress levels, study finds.

Trees form friendships, look after each other, and even “cuddle,” claims author of The Hidden Life of Trees

On a quest to save California’s coastal redwoods, man “moves the giants” to Southern Oregon

‍‌Researchers discover trees have a “heartbeat,” it’s just so slow we’ve never noticed before

China deploys 60,000 troops to fight enemy number one in the country — air pollution — by planting 16 million acres of trees

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China is going to war with a new kind of enemy — industrial air pollution. The People’s Liberation Army has reassigned 60,000 troops to plant 16 million acres of trees to help clean the air.

Biodegradable, egg-shaped “burial pods” allow you to almost literally “turn yourself into a tree” when you die

Every year Americans cut down 4 million acres of hardwood forest to bury our dead.