Native trees, such as oaks, have long held a special place in our culture and countryside. Now, researchers have shown that ...

Living in a tree-filled neighborhood may be as beneficial to the heart as regular exercise, new research shows. Researchers at the University of Louisville designed a clinical trial that followed ...

Trees provide an important buffer against problems created by climate change, cooling our neighborhoods and helping control stormwater, but in Arlington, a new study shows an alarming loss of tree ...

As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

People plant trees as a part of the DCR's Urban and Community Forestry Program in 2022. This story was originally produced by WBUR. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the New England News ...

Philadelphia is a city filled with lush greenery — depending on where you live. While communities across the northwest or surrounding Fairmount Park see dozens of trees each day, other parts of the ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

Leafy, tree-lined streets aren’t just good for property values; they may also be good for your health, according to a new report. After analyzing two sets of data from the city of Toronto, researchers ...

A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...

Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break the record held by a forest ...

(CNN) — Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts, scientists have found. The math concept hidden in this tree art — ...