Trees

Police and protesters against the creation of a metro station at Exarchia, in central Athens clashed on Monday. Protesters say that the plan aims at changing the character of the historic Athens square, by the removal of dozens of trees. In...

Almost 30 percent of tree species in the wild are facing extinction, according to a report published by the Botanic Gardens Conservation International. The group's report, entitled "the State of the World's Trees," concluded that 17,510 out of Earth's 58,497...

Ancient trees may be the key to a healthy forest, and therefore a healthy planet, a recent article published in the academic journal Nature Plants contends. The age of trees is not typically defined by a particular lifespan, like with...

Approximately three hundred and fifty mulberry trees in Athens have been decimated by a wood-boring insect called ''Xylotrechus Chinensis,'' and another 1,000 have been infested, Athens municipal arborists said on Tuesday. These beautiful and now characteristically-Athenian trees line some of the...