Featuring six ancient trees - three from across the world and three from India ...

An ancient yew whose roots grow out of the ruins of Britain’s first Cistercian monastery has been named Tree of the Year. The Waverley Abbey Yew took the prize for its spectacular, gnarled roots ...

It is preserved with religious veneration by the peasantry. One of the most famous ancient trees in Ireland is the Muckross Friary Yew which stands in the center of the cloisters of the ruined ...

Pile of subfossil yew trunks on the edge of an agricultural field, north of Peterborough, UK. Photo credit: T. Bebchuk The buried remains of vast forests of ancient yew trees that once covered the ...

Our results challenge this view, showing that oak, hazel, and yew consistently thrived in these ancient woodlands, further supporting a picture of a semi-open, mosaic-like vegetation," explains Dr ...

The buried remains of vast forests of ancient yew trees that once covered the Fens could shed light on the history of climate change, researchers said. Hundreds of tree trunks dug up by Fenland ...

Yew's sensitivity to fire highlights this, as it would have struggled to thrive in fire-prone systems yet persisted in ancient woodlands where herbivores likely kept forests dynamic and open.