This story is part of Grist’s Summer Dreams arts and culture series, a weeklong exploration of how popular fiction can influence our environmental reality. If you have warm, fuzzy memories of reading ...

Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. This year for Arbor Day this year we climbed into the NPR archives to find our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction and kids' books. Scroll ...

Usually trees get turned into books and not the other way around, but Sourcebooks children’s authors have plans for reforestation. Rachel Griffin’s third YA novel featuring witches, Bring Me Your ...

Silent observers of our lives, trees are on most peoples’ radar only at moments of transition or death: We mark springtime’s budding and autumn’s flamboyance, note somberly the tree felled by a storm ...

One cold afternoon in the autumn of 2018, in a forest outside the tiny village of Hümmel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, I went for a walk with the German forester Peter Wohlleben. He’s a tall man with a ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Franklin D. Roosevelt held many titles during his life: New York state senator, governor, secretary of the Navy and, of course, president. But the title he gave to himself was far a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tree planting is widely promoted as a solution to challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss, desertification, and more. One ...

When I tell people I’m an environmental psychologist, they often assume that means I am a “tree hugger” and they are not entirely wrong. But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding ...

In Edel Rodriguez’s “The Mango Tree” and Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan’s “Simone,” environmental displacement is a reality and a metaphor. By Alan Gratz Alan Gratz is the author of the middle ...

Whose woods these are I think I know. ~ Robert Frost Source: Sun shines through forest. Used by permission from Dorcon Films. Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too ...