Learn to read leaves, race the turning of the seasons, meet the oldest and biggest living things on Earth, and catch up on the good news from the world’s forests.
Answer a few simple questions about a leaf and we’ll narrow down 37 common North American trees.
Identify a leafName the tree before its leaf fades from green to autumn brown. Three levels, from Seedling to Old Growth.
Play the gameReal, recent headlines about planting, protecting and regrowing forests. Each story links to its original source.
The partners planted 1,015,594 native trees across 1,089 hectares of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, and seedlings are emerging 48% above projections.
ReforestationMore than 81,400 hectares of taiga forest and peatland south of Kapuskasing, Ontario, are being conserved. The land stores over 30 million tonnes of carbon.
ProtectionAhmedabad Municipal Corporation completed its “Mission Five Million Trees,” planting five million saplings across the city between June 5 and October 8, 2026.
Urban forestsWorking with Jean Marie River First Nation, crews planted 1,504,030 seedling plugs, yielding 3,365,613 native trees and shrubs across 403 hectares. It is one of the largest planting projects in NWT history.
ReforestationNew York City planted 18,261 trees in fiscal year 2026, the most in ten years, growing shade and cooling for neighborhoods across the five boroughs.
Urban forestsCrews in southern New Mexico wrapped up the 2026 season after planting more than 40,500 seedlings to bring forest back to the Lincoln National Forest.
ReforestationThe funding backs 165 community projects that will plant roughly 473,000 trees in cities and towns across Canada.
Urban forestsUQ researchers found that helping tropical rainforests regrow naturally can be up to 96% cheaper than planting trees, which could help restore forests at scale.
ScienceThe B.C. city planted 8,051 trees this year, its largest planting season ever, to strengthen a canopy that already covers almost a third of Burnaby.
Urban forestsPeru made the 30,017-hectare Tijae–Río Nieva area, a biodiverse landscape of montane and cloud forest, a permanent national protected area.
ProtectionAbout 37,000 trees went into the ground this season, bringing the Welsh capital’s urban forest project to roughly 155,500 new trees.
Urban forestsThe UK charity, planting since 1993, celebrated its two-millionth urban tree, a milestone for greener, healthier towns and cities.
Urban forestsMaryland’s statewide effort to plant five million trees passed the 1.5 million mark, with plantings in communities, farms and forests.
ReforestationA record season of about four million trees pushed the national charity past 50 million trees planted.
ReforestationTNC planted 2.5 million trees in Minnesota this year, adding to more than 13 million it has planted there since 2005.
ReforestationMore than 10 million trees have now been established across the North of England as part of the Northern Forest, launched in 2018.
ReforestationStories selected October 2026 and checked against their original publishers. Want the big picture? See What’s Being Done.