Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and twist toward the sky in ...

The world-famous Sycamore Gap tree was at least 100 to 120 years old when it was illegally felled, experts have said. The exact age of the tree on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland has been a matter of ...

We have a natural fascination with time – how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

A hundred years ago, Maryland's first state forester challenged residents to find the state's biggest tree. Now the contest ...

A study of tree rings in the Gaspésie’s Sainte-Anne River area reveals that snowpacks have been declining noticeably in the region’s mountains for nearly nine decades. The researchers say the ...

New research has found that some tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon can be used to monitor mercury pollution from gold mining, offering an alternative to expensive air monitors. Previous research ...