Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide.

When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited ...

Researchers hope the introduction of forest soil and the thousands of fungal spores and other microbes living within it will provide over time a needed boost to trees planted in compact, ...

Take a 2-minute flyover of BiodiversiTREE, a 20,000-tree forest experiment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on Chesapeake Bay. The forest has 16 different tree species, so scientists ...

A fossil of a 350-million-year-old tree was discovered with an unusually bulging top, created by hundreds of near-perfectly preserved leaves surrounding its trunk, that appears straight out of a Dr.

Physicists in Europe have quietly turned a classic holiday symbol into a cutting-edge experiment, 3D-printing a tiny Christmas tree out of ice instead of plastic or metal. The result is both a playful ...

Fall leaf color and climate change, urban trees, heat islands and downtown honeybees. Why do leaves change color in the fall, and how will climate change affect that rainbow of color? Plus, urban ...

Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Do artists and scientists see the same ...

An area of ecologically intact and biodiverse grassland larger than France is endangered by an NGO-fueled push to plant as many trees as possible. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 15, 2024 2:00 PM EST ...