Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...

Forests aren’t keeping up with today’s climate chaos. While temperatures soar within decades, tree populations take 100 to 200 years to shift in response. A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising ...

Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising ...

Trees are more likely to be damaged by flooding during the growing season than during the dormant season, according to ...

Too little rain, too little water in the landscape—so simple, so serious. Even if the drought is obvious because freshwaters ...

Stanford researchers discovered how plant cells decide whether to form breathing pores based on size and neighbor signals.

During a particularly hot afternoon in June, my staff and I were walking a shaded trail at Garden in the Woods in Framingham ...

Transpiration is the evaporation of water from trees out and into the Earth's atmosphere. Leaf transpiration occurs through pores called stomata, and at a necessary "cost", displaces of much of ...

All tree leaves have an outer layer called the epidermis, which can also be used in the identification process. This leaf "skin" always has a waxy cover called the cuticle and varies in thickness.

A thunderstorm with 60 mph wind gusts toppled trees in Winston-Salem, causing more than 4,000 power outages in Forsyth and Guilford counties. No injuries were immediately reported. The National ...