Fast-growing plants have their benefits, but with these evergreens, there are also drawbacks. From being disease-prone to ...

It was just days between the time Rooted in Trees founder Paul Abbey learned about the Japanese concept of urban forests and his discovery that Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Executive Director Christopher ...

Trees lost many surface roots in drought but grew more deep roots that reached wetter soil. Fungal partners helped roots take up water.

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in 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 ...

Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.

As the gap between burned areas and replanting widens year after year, scientists see big challenges beyond where to put seedlings. Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over ...

The Greenbelt Foundation -- celebrating its 20 (th) anniversary this year -- and Forests Canada have partnered since 2022 to increase near-urban and rural forest cover and enhance diverse, natural ...

Plants growing at the bottom of giant sinkholes in China are so awash in nutrients, they grow faster than their surface-dwelling counterparts, all while using less of a fundamental building block, a ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize - some of them make gold. Scientists in Finland found gold particles inside Norway spruce ...