An email from a subscriber made us question everything we thought we knew about trees. We finally got around to checking our email and found a surprisingly interesting question from a subscriber: are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the nonprofit North East Trees plant a tree in the Imperial Gardens public housing development in Watts in August 2021.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chip Murrow had never heard the term "exploding trees" in his 30 years as a forester for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1978, when I moved to this property, it already had six trees, each approximately 40 to 50 feet tall. They could have been in place since 1936, when the ...

Juno Ridge residents are concerned about trees growing near utility lines. AT&T plans to trim the vegetation along Wheeler ...

It turns out that trees can actually explode when temperatures drop. Trees can explode during extreme cold due to sap expansion when it freezes. Oak, maple, and fruit trees with high moisture are most ...

Kenneth Feeley, UM biology professor and Director of the Gifford Arboretum measures a tree on campus. His research found that about half of Miami’s trees will be stressed by rising temperatures.