Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smoldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will ...

Street trees often grow in appalling soil, have little root space, are rarely watered and get aggressively trimmed. But this ...

Contemporary artist Sam Van Aken is bringing the “Tree of 40 Fruit” to Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia. This ...

It’s a whole new way to think about art.” As far as the “Tree of 40 Fruit,” it generally takes one year to know if the graft ...

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and ...

Monitoring urban plant health traditionally requires extensive manual labor and botanical expertise, creating challenges for cities facing expanding green spaces, higher population densities, and ...

A study recently published in Nature indicates that human activities have a negative effect on the biodiversity of wildlife hundreds of kilometers away. A research collaboration led by the University ...

However, an MIT study suggests that urban heat islands are unreliable for predicting the effects of global warming. This is ...