Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh.

Lightning is one of nature's most destructive forces, responsible for killing millions of trees every year. But in the rainforests of Panama, one species has flipped that danger into a powerful ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Planting trees has often been seen as a way to combat climate change, but recent research suggests that this method of carbon sequestration isn’t ...

The tree mix matters. Near Chesapeake Bay, scientists have been experimenting with mini-forests for over a decade. The ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...