Support the fact-based journalism you rely on with a donation to Marketplace today. Give Now!

Preparing for El Niño's storms in Los Angeles

Dec 28, 2015
Southern Californians are worrying about flooding, mudslides and their trees

Here's a plan: plant trees, mine coal

Oct 7, 2015
As coal mines in the U.S. close, an entrepreneur has a plan to pair mines with carbon sinks.

Putting a dollar value on that tree in your yard

Apr 26, 2013
Yes, it's Arbor Day again. Don't hug a tree, plant one. Or, calculate the value of what a tree is doing for the environment.

British ash trees threatened by fungus from Denmark

Dec 4, 2012
The disease could wipe out a third of Britain's forest, and landowners and tree growers could lose tens of millions.

A new way to measure income inequality

Sep 20, 2012
Environmental writer Tim De Chant says gauging income inequality is as simple as looking at a neighborhood's trees.

Trying to measure income inequality? Follow the trees

Sep 20, 2012
You can measure an area's income inequality in pay stubs, Census numbers and... its tree cover? Environmental writer Tim De Chant argues that sometimes you can't see a neighborhood's wealth for the trees.

For public good, not for profit.

Great news for tree nerds

Jun 8, 2011
Oh there are tree nerds. Just as there are Dr. Who nerds and Battlestar Galactica nerds and Commodore 64 nerds, there are tree nerds. And now they...