Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Scientists are investigating the reasons some plants still wear last season’s tattered clothes.

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech trees would ...

Christmas trees are big business out West, but a hotter climate means challenges for tree growers. John Tillman owns Tillman Christmas Trees and has acres of Noble, Nordmann, Fraser, Korean and ...

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk, ...

Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree species ...

The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

Scientists from the Rwanda Forestry Authority have discovered two types of trees that could produce clean electricity, providing power to isolated communities. Rwanda aims to achieve complete ...