In 2023, two men chopped down England’s Sycamore Gap tree, a tall, beloved specimen growing in a dip in the rolling landscape ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and twist toward the sky in ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

The world-famous Sycamore Gap tree was at least 100 to 120 years old when it was illegally felled, experts have said. The exact age of the tree on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland has been a matter of ...

Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the ...

A new international study led by the University of Freiburg shows that long droughts can reverse the benefits of tree ...

We can examine the growth rings of living trees without cutting them down by carefully drilling a small hole into the trunk and extracting a column ("core") of wood about the size of a drinking straw.

FARGO — Imagine being 400 years old, still alive, and you were a youngster when the Mayflower landed in 1620. Area trees needn’t use their imaginations — some are living it. What’s the average ...

When tree and climate expert Daniel Griffin learned that wildfire and high temperatures were threatening giant sequoias near Yosemite National Park, alarm bells went off in his head. Fueled by climate ...

Increasing tree species diversity is often regarded as a way to make forests more resilient to climate change. However, a new ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami ...

Alison O'Donnell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Edward Cook receives funding from US National Science Foundation research grants. Pauline Grierson receives funding from the ...