Thanks to Harriet Rix and her sublime book, The Genius of Trees, I have seen and relished the world the day before the Chicxulub asteroid hit. I have smelled its perfumes, and squelched through its ...

Streetlights may have an interesting and unique effect on tree leaves. According to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, artificial light could be causing the leaves on Japanese pagodas and ...

Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

In order to grow properly, trees need an adequate period of warmth during their growing seasons; otherwise, the cell walls of new growth won't develop correctly and create blue rings that appear when ...