Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest ...

Climatic stress events, such as extreme temperatures and prolonged droughts, are increasingly affecting tree growth and ...

Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts, scientists have found. The math concept hidden in this tree art — ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Are we there yet? Leopard frogs were trilling from the pond in the night as I drowsed to sleep. Birdsongs woke me at dawn, ...

There's a moment in every great safari where the wilderness stops feeling like a backdrop and begins to pull you into its ...

T he aspiring naturalist begins her or his craft in the warmer seasons, when it is easy to name and to know the trees and grasses and shrubs by their ...

Among the first trees to show fall color, their leaves turn scarlet to deep-wine crimson ... pebbled bark. A dogwood's silhouette in winter is pure sculpture. The best time to plant dogwood trees is ...

When it comes down to it, L.A.’s palm trees are like the lilies of the field, glorious to behold but neither toiling nor spinning, many of them sucking down water and providing barely enough shade to ...