Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

To be fair, landscape fabric has its place. Unfortunately, it’s widely misused in most home landscape applications, where it ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Aidan Heartfield was on the phone with his father when their family’s cabin was swept away in the Texas floods. A team is ...

This is the shocking moment a cow was stuck in a tree in China. Mr Wang was herding cattle through a forested area to graze on wild grass when one of the was wedged between a tree trunk and soil in ...

While sketching at the zoo one morning, a small boy asked me for a pencil and a piece of paper. He proceeded to transform the ...

The iconic Sitka spruce at Yaquina Bay Recreation Site will remain standing as a 20-foot snag with its distinctive feature intact.

When Marina Tabassum's architects were invited to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, its 25th iteration ...

Unfinished botanical sketch showing a view of an ant's nest on the trunk of a palm tree, out of which two plants grow--possibly a type of night-blooming cereus.