And trees have widespread effects on their surrounding environment, from providing nuts for squirrels to shading snowbanks that provide late-summer water supplies. Then there are the social aspects.

"Trees are never stakeholders in the real estate business. The temperatures in the city have been rising and we have witnessed more than 40 degrees C continuously in April this year.

By arborist Rebecca Latta’s estimate, thousands of trees in Altadena have been tagged for removal: oaks, pines, sycamores, deodar cedars — trees that have canopied the town for decades.

Ryan Fritsch co-founded Save Trees to provide sustainable alternatives to single-use paper products, March 2025 (KOIN) “Paper products are very rarely donated,” Fritsch told KOIN 6 News.

A new conservation group is working to save trees that were damaged in the Eaton Fire. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

While other trees on her property remained, including the massive elm that frames her home, the loss of the oaks was heavy. Cut branches lie on the ground at Wynne Wilson’s property in Altadena.

A warehouse in East Dallas is the temporary home of more than 300 palm trees riding out this late winter cold spell. The owner of Texas Palm Trees has to do this to keep some of his inventory alive.

Could the solution to deforestation from toilet paper be growing in your backyard? In Kenya’s Meru town, Benjamin Mutembei has been using the Plectranthus barbatus plant as an eco-friendly ...

In this Jan. 10, 2019 photo, people visit Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. The California Fish & Game Commission is holding a hearing on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 ...

A group of residents are planning a record tree hug as part of a bid to save 26 trees from being cut down to make way for a new cycleway. Campaigners are attempting to break the mass tree hugging ...