We all know that trees are an important part of our climate efforts. But we usually envision this as lush forests soaking up ...

A passage from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, now widely known online as the fig tree metaphor, has become a rallying cry for ...

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In a surprising twist of nature, certain fig trees in Kenya are doing more than just bearing fruit—they’re capturing carbon ...

Touch the fruit. Not all figs show obvious signs of ripening. Some, including the popular LSU Gold cultivar, remain green ...

Learn about the ability of some fig trees to store atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into stone, a process that could ...

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Scientists discovered that fig trees in Kenya can store carbon dioxide as calcium carbonate rocks inside their trunks and ...

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...