Across cities and suburbs, a curious pattern keeps turning up in aerial photos and field surveys alike: trees that stand ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s strangest experiments.

“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 ...

Rows of uniform holes, either horizontal (most commonly) or vertical, might look like an insect attack, but they are more likely caused by a bird with an unusual name – the yellow-bellied sapsucker ...

About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast. It's on the grounds of the Smithsonian ...