A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations. UC Davis ...

Large fires, fueled by a record breaking drought, have been destroying homes and timber plantations in Southeastern states.

Ecologists warn that in just 25 years, more than 70 percent of the Southwestern needle leaf evergreen forests, which include ...

Discover how the longevity of trees, particularly the Great Basin bristlecone pine, contributes to our understanding of ...

The bristlecone pine tree is the world's oldest living non-clonal organism. This one grows in California's White Mountains. (Kat Kerlin/UC Davis) What can the world’s longest living individual teach ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

On a cold winter’s day, with the sun dipping in and out of the clouds, we walked the neighborhood to admire what many people call pines, trees that are green year-round. Actually, those evergreens ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in Australia in 1994. CU ...

Wally the Wollemi pine, among one of Earth's rarest plants at one time thought extinct, has a new home at the University of Colorado Boulder's greenhouse on 30th Street. Photo by Rachel Sauer Back in ...

Insects threaten Lebanon's prized pine nuts Forest and livelihoods at risk, prices rising Trees left vulnerable by ravages of climate change BKASSINE FOREST, Lebanon, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In the heart ...

Charles Schutte, an assistant professor at Rowan University’s Department of Environmental Science, holds soil dug up from an Atlantic white cedar swamp. He is teaming up with soil scientists and the ...

Wollemi Counseling Services, 24500 Center Ridge Road, Suite 279, in Westlake, has launched a new network called The Grove, which offers free and low-cost community support groups for women. Rachel ...