Trees are essential to our survival—from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion, trees do so much for us—there ...

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.

Sudden or severe cold temperature can cause trees to experience "frost crack." NPR's Scott Simon talks with Bill McNee of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about what happens and why.

Community organizations are planting trees in long-neglected neighborhoods to cool them down. These efforts are aiming to create healthier, more sustainable environments across Southern California.

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 ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

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 ...

Chip Murrow had never heard the term "exploding trees" in his 30 years as a forester for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Is there a danger of exploding trees in Iowa? And how does it happen?

After the fatal landslides at Mount Maunganui, attention has focused on recent tree removal from Mauao. But landslides rarely ...

GREENVILLE — After Tropical Storm Helene turned trees across the Upstate into weapons, the anticipation of the pending winter storm comes with concern and questions about how the damage could play a ...

Estrella Luna-Diez receives funding from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Anne-Marie Culhane receives funding from UKRI and the NERC. Bruno Barcante ...