The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

A number of readers have inquired as to the status of garden soil or landscaped ground following a fire.

Eastern white pine is a very handsome tree widely used for landscaping, windbreaks and visual barriers. It can be hard to ...

One-year-old Blue Brim at right, and her three puppies, seek attention from Virginia Crowley at her Columbus home on Feb. 7, 1975.

It may have been a little smoky in the Distillery Hill area of Breckenridge on Tuesday as crews worked to complete pile burns ...

One of the most important, yet challenging, skills to nail down as a wilderness survivalist is tree identification. Beyond ...

In order to grow properly, trees need an adequate period of warmth during their growing seasons; otherwise, the cell walls [… ...

These “blue rings,” visible only under a microscope, reveal centuries-old stories of climate disasters that once brought summer temperatures plunging to near-freezing. The study, published in ...

Selecting Mount Iškoras in Norway for a search for blue rings, a team of researchers took samples from 25 pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, representing the species Pinus sylvestris and Juniperus ...

Buchwal's team analyzed samples from 25 Scots pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, staining and photographing their growth rings under a microscope. The study revealed that blue rings were more ...