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 ...

Oddities involving trees aren’t exclusive to Vigo County. A mulberry tree grows in the apex of the Decatur County Courthouse in Greensburg, Indiana. Likewise, a 100-foot-tall cottonwood sits in the ...

“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 ...

The unsightly webbing you may have noticed at the branch ends of many landscape trees recently is constructed by the fall webworm. This native pest is often discovered in late summer as they make ...

NOTE: This is Part Two of a two-part Planet Money newsletter series on the struggles of a former logging town named Orick, California. Part One, "The tale of a distressed American town on the doorstep ...

African umbrella acacia trees grow more during droughts, contrasting with the conservative splendid thorn acacia, a study in The Plant Journal shows.