As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry ...

As darkness settled over a forest of southern Vietnam, a “long”-limbed creature with “dagger-like spines” climbed into a shrub and fell asleep. But the night wouldn’t be restful. Passing scientists ...

Growers often train branches to grow into desired shapes by wrapping them first with protective raffia, then with bonsai wire ...

The eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginicum) is an evergreen conifer common to our region. It does well in sandy, gravely, ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

There are a variety of ways federal agencies rip, shred, and tear down pinyon and juniper forests, but the result is often the same: vast clear-cut swaths of native trees. Afterward, exotic grass ...

Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous ...

Ecologists are warning that climate change, pests and shifting environmental conditions are leading to the decline of several ...

If your cedars are showing signs of disease, you'll need to identify the issue to appropriately treat it. Learn about some of the most common cedar illnesses.

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found that the genetic diversity is being lost across the globe but that ...

Hearing bird song in Lamoille Canyon on a summer morning is what one would expect. But one does not expect bird song on a ...