An invasive species on Socotra, free-roaming goats devour saplings before they have a chance to grow. Outside of ...

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

Their leaves and flowers grow in the canopy. Tree trunks - these are tall and thin to allow trees to reach the sunlight. The bark on these trees is smooth to allow water to flow down to the roots ...

So, why paint tree trunks white? The roots of this practice stretch back to ancient times, when it was common among Greeks as part of a spring tradition, and also from the belief that limewash ...

Credit: Will Parson, Chesapeake Bay Program Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark ... some will become marshes that maintain vital ecosystem services, ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse ...

A highway project now threatens its existence — and the ecosystem around it ... increment borer to extract a core from the trunk to study the tree's age and growth historyImage: Serdar Vardar ...