LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Across the Mojave Desert, the dynamic Joshua Tree exists as the largest plant on the landscape. Like everything in the desert, scientists are working to understand how these iconic ...

Australian researchers have discovered a hidden climate superpower of trees. Their bark harbors trillions of microbes that ...

Researchers discovered that adult trees in a Panamanian forest are three times as distant from trees of their species as would be predicted. The spatial distribution of purple-blooming Dipteryx ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — New smart tree watering research hopes to turn over a new leaf with Arizona's water conservation efforts. At the University of Arizona's Agriculture Center, 80 tree saplings are ...

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 ...

It may be the height of maple syrup season in the Northeast, but one researcher in northern New York has turned his focus to another type of sap. Adam Wild, the director of the Uihlein Maple Research ...

Trees planted in the tropics as part of nations' reforestation commitments can have unintended consequences, sometimes degrading biodiversity hotspots, damaging ecosystems like grasslands, or ...

Optimizing tree architecture is a long-standing challenge in fruit production, as branch orientation directly affects light ...

Oaks are exceptional among tree species in that their acorns cannot be traditionally seed banked for conservation purposes. Here a researcher studies the leaves on the tree. (Morton Arboretum) BIG ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden ally in the fight against climate change and air pollution: the microscopic communities ...