This hands-on activity will connect your child with the trees in her backyard and neighborhood. Aside from being big and beautiful, trees serve a very important purpose on our planet. Can your child ...

Getting a child interested in books and reading at a young age can truly change their lives. Yet, so many kids across West Michigan have little to no access to books outside of school, with many not ...

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 ...

“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...

“The Tree Book: Superior Selections for Landscapes, Streetscapes, and Gardens” by Michael A. Dirr and Keith S. Warren ($79.95, Timber Press): “We love trees,” declare the authors in the first words of ...

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 ...

Trees have existed as literary tropes pretty much since the earliest human writings and myths. And it makes sense — trees are one of the oldest proven species on the planet, with their existence ...