City Hall signed up with the United States Forest Service to take part in a pilot project that could eventually earn carbon credits by planting 1,000 trees that remove carbon from the air.

Redd Taylor Cantrill, 11, and his family have campaigned to save the 200-year-old oak in their garden. Insurers wanted to chop it down as part of a subsidence insurance claim by the family, leaving ...

When you plant a tree, double-check that the root flare, the point where the trunk curves out into the roots, is at the level of the surrounding soil and no lower. Planting a tree too deeply can ...

More: Daddy Days: Time for chores When you plant a tree you’re giving a gift (to yourself, your kids, to future generations) and it’s not merely a tree. It’s truly the gift of time.

Even beer-drinking Babylonians knew that you can’t grow a good tree with bad roots. First, inspect the base of the trunk to make sure you can locate the root flair — where the trunk widens to ...