The scientific consensus is that the world will soon realize the dreaded 1.5°C increase, a milestone experts have long believed to be a tipping point in climate change. We often hear about global ...

OpenTreeMap is helping cities figure out where all the trees are, so they can better judge the environmental and public health impacts of a well-planted city. Here’s a hint: The impacts are huge.

CHICAGO (CBS) --The city is taking a strategy used to combat potholes to cut down on the backlog of requests for tree trimming, dead tree removal and graffiti erasure. When Streets and Sanitation ...

How do we get a good picture of what trees are where, how they are contributing to the environment, and what problems they might be susceptible to in today's changing world? The main problem with ...

TURLOCK (CBS13) - A new way to learn about all the trees that fill the campus of California State University Stanislaus is also being used to design the future of its campus. The tool was developed by ...

(TNS) -- WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- City planner Amanda Jacobson gave the Tree Board a demonstration Thursday on how the new geographic information system will be used to monitor and manage the city’s tree ...

Last fall nearly 20 Calvin biology students went sleuthing on campus, meter sticks, notebooks and GPS devices in hand. The goal? To document every tree of at least five inches in diameter on the west ...

Every tree in San Francisco will soon be accounted for online, thanks to a new, Wikified project that aims to plot them all. The Urban Forest Map will officially launch Wednesday, drawing on tree ...

The City of Cape Town’s recreation and parks department has completed a tree mapping project – a first in South Africa. The pilot project started in June last year and will provide extensive data on ...