As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry ...

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

The eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginicum) is an evergreen conifer common to our region. It does well in sandy, gravely, ...

There are a variety of ways federal agencies rip, shred, and tear down pinyon and juniper forests, but the result is often the same: vast clear-cut swaths of native trees. Afterward, exotic grass ...

Ecologists are warning that climate change, pests and shifting environmental conditions are leading to the decline of several important tree species across the UK - and people are being urged to help ...

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found that the genetic diversity is being lost across the globe but that ...

Hearing bird song in Lamoille Canyon on a summer morning is what one would expect. But one does not expect bird song on a ...

The study, published in Frontiers in Plant Science, examined pine trees and juniper shrubs in the Arctic ... This staining technique makes it easy to identify areas where cell walls didn ...

"Pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the weather of the past: ‘Blue’ tree rings, which indicate that the cell walls of that year’s growth never lignified properly, show ...

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...