From community solar farms to co-owned wind turbines, eco-inventors are coming up with new ways to bring renewable power into our homes. Now, micro wind turbines designed to look like trees are ...

Destructive winds during storms and cyclones often cause tree failures, especially through uprooting and stem breakage. However, how trees respond to wind under various forest configurations and ...

A research team led by scientists from India's Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering has developed a tree-type of PV-wind power system for off-grid applications. “A hybrid tree is a synthetic ...

WASHINGTON — When storms strike, one of the biggest concerns that some people in the DMV have is falling trees. A survey of residents in Fairfax, cited this as a concern on a recent environmental ...

Strong roots allow a tree to stand when powerful winds roll through. “It just sounded like a boom. Just a boom,” Jolynn Maestas, an Albuquerque resident, said. But on Wednesday, the roots of Ryan ...

Lindsay Stevenson was in a camper van in the Yosemite National Park community of Wawona this week when strong winds toppled hundreds of trees, snapping trunks in half and ripping roots out of the ...

Forest configuration, defined by tree density and spacing, affects trees’ resistance against powerful winds. In this study, the thinned plot experienced tree failures due to Typhoon Trami, while the ...