Early American wilderness might not have been as wild as you were taught. In the New Yorker, MR O'Connor traces how tree-ring ...

This article was originally published on April 28, 2021. A tree symbolizes history in the depth of its roots, growth in the number of rings in its trunk and the promise of the future in its foliage.

Trees are some of the largest and most widespread organisms on Earth, yet the true number of their species has been an enduring mystery. This lack of knowledge is detrimental to conservation efforts.

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When I first learned about Gregory Tague's new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics, in which he speaks for the trees, I thought, Wow, this really is a novel take on the ...

Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree, scientifically ...

Trees are the “lungs” of the Earth — leafy organisms that produce the oxygen we breathe in every day and cycle the carbon dioxide we breathe out. But despite trees’ vital importance to human survival, ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

“This here is a fir that would be classified as a Charlie Brown tree,” Greg Williams declared, of a spare little cutting of balsam fir. “But prune it severely the first year and you can make a good ...