A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

Aerial view of a theme park under construction, showing buildings, pathways, trees, and construction vehicles. Aerial view of a construction site with various buildings, equipment, and scaffolding.

Houston's parks director and the city's top forester spent Wednesday morning flying over the city, trying to make a grim estimate of just how many of our trees are dying.

Elms fuse their roots with neighboring elm trees so that the trees share a common root system. If elm trees are within 50 feet of one another, this fusing is likely.