Across cities and suburbs, a curious pattern keeps turning up in aerial photos and field surveys alike: trees that stand closest to cell towers are often the ones that look the sickest. Their crowns ...

“The Berkshires has a long history of trees,” Rene Wendell says via phone. For the past seven years, Wendell has worked as a land steward in Western Massachusetts for The Nature Conservancy in their ...

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Have you ever noticed the poofy white trees that appear to shed cotton balls on streets and sidewalks throughout springtime? Have you ever noticed that, at about the same time they shed, a strange ...

A model of the ancient tree with a simplified branching structure for easier visualization and humans provided for scale. A fossil dating back many millions of years offers a snapshot of a world where ...

Q: My 20-something-old redbud tree has developed lichens on the trunk, which is a first. Do I have a problem and is there anything I should do? I have another one in the yard which doesn’t have this ...