Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

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Feedback is shocked – shocked – to learn that a grove of trees in northern Italy did not, in fact, predict a solar eclipse. Now, we know what will be going through most readers’ heads at this point: ...

Spruce bark contains high levels of phenolic compounds that help protect trees from harmful fungi. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena wanted to understand how these ...

Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...

Nature gives rise to fascinating adaptations, which can sometimes lead to organisms living in some strange situations. The relationship between bark beetles, spruce trees, and a type of fungus is a ...

In 2017, 70-year-old Joseph Leon Edminster pleaded guilty to cutting off the tops of thousands of trees in Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest. A headline related to a multi-year scheme that ...

In this video, I built a Spruce Tree House in Minecraft — a cozy and functional base built high above the ground. Made entirely from spruce wood, this tree house fits perfectly into forest biomes and ...

The 41st Annual Lake Forest Tree Lighting Holiday Celebration arrived on Friday, along with winter weather, and crowds in Market Square kept warm with coffee, hot cocoa, and holiday cheer. “The event, ...

There's something about seeing a 30-foot blue spruce tree dangling above downtown Mansfield by a crane's cables that makes people happy. All that was missing was some holiday music — and Santa, of ...

Right now the tree that will soon rise from Millennium Park smothered in thousands of lights looks like a giant version of something you might use to scrub the gunk from a shower drain. But behold ...

Halloween may be a mere three days in the past, but it's already time to swap pumpkin spice for peppermint with the winter holidays coming sooner than we may think. In one sure sign of that being the ...