Fast-growing trees can add character and color to your home's landscape relatively quickly, but those varieties often require full sun to add height so quickly. However, there are plenty of shade ...

A study finds small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito species. Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research ...

ADAMS — Before National Grid cut down 129 privately owned trees and 39 on town-owned land, no one on the town's Select Board was aware of its plan to do so. Only after the trees were felled did Robert ...

“Seeing the trees die, it’s like losing one of your babies,” said Keybani, whose family runs a nursery dedicated to preserving the species. Known for their mushroom-shaped canopies and the ...

But years of depressed prices have eroded farmers’ ability to reinvest in their land, meaning aging trees, diseases and increasingly unpredictable climate conditions have caused productivity to ...

A late-March ice storm that left a 12-county area of northern Michigan a disaster area has left thousands of broken, damaged and fallen trees. And that is a vector for pests and disease.

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a ...

Trees in cities aren’t just a ‘nice-to-have’; they have a huge bearing on public health by keeping us cooler. A new study has calculated that increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30 per ...

It turns out that plant life has its own patented way of dealing with this astronomical event. A new study has shown that trees react to solar eclipses and even anticipate them hours in advance, ...

Remarkable research has unlocked new understanding of the mysterious ways trees communicate and share knowledge with each other – and much like in many animal species, the wisdom of age plays a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Spruce trees synchronize their bioelectrical signals hours before a solar eclipse, forming a coordinated, forest-wide response. Older trees show earlier and ...