A two decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live ...

When homeowners notice a hollow or wound in a tree, the instinct is often to fix it: to fill the cavity with something that ...

Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting ...

If your trees or lawn start the season looking more lemon than lime, you may be seeing iron chlorosis—a common nutrient ...

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

After seven games, plenty of extra innings, and a history-making pitching turn, the first repeat champions of this century could finally exhale.

Scientists have mapped microbe populations in human guts, deep-sea ecosystems and even clouds. Yet the microbial communities inside tree trunks have remained largely unseen until now. For a recent ...

A broken steel grate may remove one of the city’s most iconic landmarks— the ‘chicken bone’ outside Trenton Transit Center. The three-foot high trunk of a dead tree has for years guarded the station’s ...

In school we all learned how crucial trees are to our environment (crib note — they keep us alive), but aside from their ecological benefits, trees are beloved for numerous other reasons. Kids love to ...

Could you find the root flare on a tree? Most of us have probably never heard the term, but that particular feature is key to properly planting a tree. A common mistake is to place the root flare too ...