TORONTO -- Many Canadians start summer days in bucolic settings, drinking their morning coffee amid thickets of trees, shrubs and other plants while watching birds nesting nearby. But these people are ...

Toronto has long been serious about its urban canopy. The Ontario city is already home to around 10 million trees, which cover around 26% of the city. The current mayor, John Tory, wants to grow that ...

China is out to build a fleet of the most nature-incorporated architectural structures in the world. After a never-ending series of record-breaking glass bridges — and even a glass bathroom — ...

How do you combat the ills of poor air quality and pollution in a massive city of over eight million people, where there's hardly room to plant new trees? You build a forest straight up into the sky.

Utrecht, Netherlands, will be the latest epicenter of award-winning Italian architect Stefano Boeri’s vertical forest tower block — a project that will house over 10,000 plants and trees in addition ...

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Worldwide, cities produce about 70% of the CO 2 present in the atmosphere, while forests and woods are able to absorb 40% of it. Increasing wooded areas within and around ...

It's one of the world's most iconic examples of green design. To start, it's literally green — encased in hundreds of trees and thousands of shrubs that ascend on ladder-like balconies 26 storeys into ...