A recently published study, completed by researchers from the University of Helsinki together with Dr Katerina Machacova, a visiting scholar, demonstrates that boreal forests of…
Large-scale ‘disturbances’, including fires, harvesting, windstorms and insect outbreaks, which kill large patches of forest, are responsible for more than a tenth of tree death…
A new study led by University of Wyoming scientists reveals that trees growing atop granite in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains rely on nutrients from…
A newly published study details how to make trees grow bigger and faster, which could increase supplies of renewable resources and help trees cope with…
Trees in Costa Rica, as well as a number of plant species, in the tropical cloud forests quench their thirst by directly ingesting fog droplets…
A bacterial disease outbreak is threatening a collection of 3,200 coconut palms in the South Pacific. This gene bank is located in Papua New Guinea…
The UK’s new plan that will deal with ash disease might not come in time, as most of the country’s 90 million ash trees are…
American chestnut trees are hard to breed but easy to kill. Scientists are trying to see if a hybrid of the Chinese and American chestnut…
1,200 years ago, tree rings recorded an abnormally large radiation burst. It’s even more mysterious since this spike in carbon-14 levels indicates a massive cosmic…
New research from biologists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich examines the evolutionary history of the cypress tree, finding that their origins can be traced…
Researchers at Cornell University are using workshops and webinars to advocate sanitation techniques in maple sap production. The researchers found that by replacing spouts and…
Many have thought for years that trees are to blame for acid rain and now we have evidence that backs it up. Up to half…