Researchers say it’s the oldest-known living tree in eastern North America. If it hadn’t been protected, it could have ended up as garden mulch.Read More »
Wizened bristlecone pines in California reveal past climate trends, and new research shows how slight variations in landscape position drive different growth patterns in trees’ annual rings.Read More »Biogeosciences
Simulating the dynamic nature of plant root profiles in Earth system models improves the representation of the carbon and water cycles.Read More »Biogeosciences
Growing plants near building air vents may help them grow better, while reducing the carbon emissions from the people exhaling inside.Read More »Geohealth
Grasses, small flowers, and mosses colonize glacial till in the Peruvian Andes when researchers apply a phosphorus fertilizer, an ecological surprise with implications for carbon sequestration.Read More »Geohealth
Coastal California fog—a key source of water for the iconic redwood tree—has declined by a third. Can a trace gas, carbonyl sulfide, be used to assess the effect on plant productivity?Read More »Biogeosciences
