While the leafless tree emoji might look like a reference for winter, or a spooky emoji perfect for a Halloween post, the icon was created to represent nature dying because of droughts.

Avid texters will soon have a new way to talk about the growing impacts of climate change: an emoji depicting a tree without leaves. Approval of the emoji was revealed in an update earlier this ...

Avid texters will soon have a new way to talk about the growing impacts of climate change: an emoji depicting a tree without leaves. Approval of the emoji was revealed in an update earlier this ...