The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

An ambitious project about to get underway intends to see how the trees will respond to the CO2 levels of the future ...

An area of ecologically intact and biodiverse grassland larger than France is endangered by an NGO-fueled push to plant as many trees as possible. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 15, 2024 2:00 PM EST ...

Take a 2-minute flyover of BiodiversiTREE, a 20,000-tree forest experiment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on Chesapeake Bay. The forest has 16 different tree species, so scientists ...

A study at the Wall of Wind showed that trees around a low-rise building can reduce the wind force on segments by as much as ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland announced earlier this year that it was seeking a firm to assess the health of 90,000 trees lining city streets. The comprehenisve 12-month survey, that was expected to ...

A fossil of a 350-million-year-old tree was discovered with an unusually bulging top, created by hundreds of near-perfectly preserved leaves surrounding its trunk, that appears straight out of a Dr.

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Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...