At this time of year, we tend to think of trees with colorful leaves as native to colder climates than ours. But then Jenny ...

Real Christmas trees are a favoured way to decorate the home for the festive season and nothing beats the fragrance for many homeowners. Between seven million real trees are sold in the UK every year, ...

In 2011, archaeologists in England made an extraordinary find: While excavating an ancient riverbed, they unearthed nine well-preserved log boats that were between 2,500 to 3,500 years old. Now, after ...

Michigan is home to seven of America’s largest trees. They’re known as national champions. One stands beside a curb in Allegan County. Another towers over a home in Berrien County. Some are in the ...

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

Harsh, eco-unfriendly synthetic herbicides are definitely one of those things that you shouldn't be using if you don't have to. Japanese researchers are thus now developing a green alternative, ...

In the search for eco-friendly alternatives to synthetic herbicides, researchers from Kyushu University, Japan, have identified a potent, weed-inhibiting compound in the leaves of the Manchurian ...

Scientists have mapped microbe populations in human guts, deep-sea ecosystems and even clouds. Yet the microbial communities inside tree trunks have remained largely unseen until now. For a recent ...

A broken steel grate may remove one of the city’s most iconic landmarks— the ‘chicken bone’ outside Trenton Transit Center. The three-foot high trunk of a dead tree has for years guarded the station’s ...

CASS COUNTY, Mich. (WSBT) — The man convicted of stealing a fully mature walnut tree has been sentenced to 38 months to 10 years in prison. WSBT 22 first brought you this story in August. Trever ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! A chance of frost is in the forecast as the growing season winds its way down. Many gardeners perform a fall cleanup and plant a cover crop such as winter ...