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 ...

Tropical forests are home to many species, but they are often very rare. Only a few individuals of a given species are present in a forest. The planting design of the Agua Salud Experiment makes it ...

Pie cherries at O'Brien Garden and Trees. (Riley Board/KDLL) Michael O’Brien likes a challenge. That’s why O’Brien Garden and Trees in Nikiski is what he calls an experimental farm — he tries out ...

An ozone generator fires powerful sparks - which David Karnosky, the Michigan Technological University's Ecosystem Science Center professor spearheading the experiment, compares to lightning strikes - ...

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.

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 ...

Fall leaf color and climate change, urban trees, heat islands and downtown honeybees. Why do leaves change color in the fall, and how will climate change affect that rainbow of color? Plus, urban ...

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 ...