These planting projects, called monoculture tree plantations, focus on creating large swathes of a forest made up of a single tree species like pine or eucalyptus.

"Monoculture -- planting vast areas with a single crop -- is driven by technological reasons rather than biological ones. Practical aspects of planting and harvesting have motivated this approach.

A new paper cautions against monoculture planting as a solution. ... At Cop26 in 2021, world leaders pledged to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of this decade, although data shows that ...

Monoculture can really be a good option when it comes to containers. Andrea, who is a trained horticulturist and now serves as a Master Gardener, chose to group several containers together on her ...

Forestry experts understand that a monoculture of trees — like the black spruce saplings we were planting, six feet apart in neat rows — has made wildfires more likely and much worse when they ...

The same images allow us to see the gradual change of those lands that were previously forested. Many are transformed into homogeneous agricultural fields in which only one monoculture grows.

"Monoculture—planting vast areas with a single crop—is driven by technological reasons rather than biological ones. Practical aspects of planting and harvesting have motivated this approach.