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 ...

Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. This year for Arbor Day this year we climbed into the NPR archives to find our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction and kids' books. Scroll ...

There are some 73,000 species of trees on Earth, according to one recent estimate. The writer Daniel Lewis zeroed in on a tiny fraction of them for his new book, "Twelve Trees." Each chapter is one ...

Dr. Lindsay Branham, an environmental psychologist, scholar, author, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Aspen Times columnist, originally didn’t know that when you talk to trees, they could talk back. But ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Franklin D. Roosevelt held many titles during his life: New York state senator, governor, secretary of the Navy and, of course, president. But the title he gave to himself was far a ...

text like "The Trees are Speaking" runs the risk of being too academic, too dense for the average reader who wants to learn more but whose life is not devoted to the subject matter. But like Mapes' ...

Silent observers of our lives, trees are on most peoples’ radar only at moments of transition or death: We mark springtime’s budding and autumn’s flamboyance, note somberly the tree felled by a storm ...

Usually trees get turned into books and not the other way around, but Sourcebooks children’s authors have plans for reforestation. Rachel Griffin’s third YA novel featuring witches, Bring Me Your ...