Across cities and suburbs, a curious pattern keeps turning up in aerial photos and field surveys alike: trees that stand closest to cell towers are often the ones that look the sickest. Their crowns ...

A model of the ancient tree with a simplified branching structure for easier visualization and humans provided for scale. A fossil dating back many millions of years offers a snapshot of a world where ...

“The Berkshires has a long history of trees,” Rene Wendell says via phone. For the past seven years, Wendell has worked as a land steward in Western Massachusetts for The Nature Conservancy in their ...

What the visitor has come across is an albino redwood tree, one of only about 400 known to exist. The strange tree is unable to produce chlorophyll, and so its needles are white instead of green.

Have you ever noticed the poofy white trees that appear to shed cotton balls on streets and sidewalks throughout springtime? Have you ever noticed that, at about the same time they shed, a strange ...

Rows of uniform holes, either horizontal (most commonly) or vertical, might look like an insect attack, but they are more likely caused by a bird with an unusual name – the yellow-bellied sapsucker ...