The Christmas holiday is long gone, but trees are still awaiting pickup in parts of Washington, D.C. Dried-up trees were ...

Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also ...

The widespread destruction of old growth trees for ranching and farming is making it harder to get the wood traditionally used to make guitars, including mahogany and Brazilian rosewood.

Manzanita are native to North America, which doesn’t really say much since North America has many different climate belts and ...

Rather than make your journey between Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon a straight shot, why not make some stops along the way? Checl out the best ones.

Researchers discovered that our ability to recognize trees in art is linked to a mathematical principle called the branch ...

Scientific research may not have evidence of the sacred, but there is a large body of work that shows the positive effects of ...

Most travelers assume summer is the best time to visit Sequoia & Kings Canyon, but that could not be further from the truth. Crowds take over the trails, parking becomes a nightmare, and the heat can ...

Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

A barred owl made quite a stir in Arlington, Virginia, over the Christmas holiday. The bird evidently was playing Santa Claus ...

This can also be referred to as the metagenome of the microbiota. A study in Nature Medicine developed a new clinical test based on a gut metagenome-derived multispecies biomarker panel for the ...