A willow tree that gained 164 pounds over five years grew in soil that lost less than two ounces. Jan Baptist van Helmont recorded that result in the early 1600s, and the arithmetic was difficult to ...

It’s a question that Silent Friend, Ildikó Enyedi’s mesmerizing and contemplative new drama, ponders in its decades-spanning saga about an old ginkgo tree, and the different generations of people who ...

In the days since last week's fatal landslides at Mount Maunganui, there has been widespread discussion about what may have caused the slopes above the campground to fail, including the possible role ...

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Trees might look silent, but scientists have discovered they're constantly exchanging information. Most of this happens underground through vast networks of fungi that connect tree roots, often called ...

It's intuitive to think that if a tree is photosynthesizing, it's also growing. But that's not necessarily so—and a new study of oak trees, published in the journal Science Advances, found that even ...

When I first learned about Gregory Tague's new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics, in which he speaks for the trees, I thought, Wow, this really is a novel take on the ...

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, walking for miles through dark forests. Once they arrive at the fortress of the evil ...

This cross section of a sequoia in Yosemite National Park in California has markers identifying the dates of tree rings. Jared Farmer What and where are the oldest known trees on the planet? If you ...

“This here is a fir that would be classified as a Charlie Brown tree,” Greg Williams declared, of a spare little cutting of balsam fir. “But prune it severely the first year and you can make a good ...