Trees first appeared around 400 million years ago. They survived the mass-extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago and lived through several glacial periods ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

Historically, nature has used trees to turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen for use by living creatures. The trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle, and have done so for millennia.

The most celebrated of all old trees (and perhaps the most curious, from its belonging to the endogenous division, which does not generally boast of long-lived members) is the the Great Dragon ...

Study Reveals Urban Trees Suffer More from Heat Waves and Drought Than Their Rural Counterparts Aug. 13, 2024 — A recent study details how trees in New York City and Boston are more negatively ...

It is one of 12 trees chronicled by Daniel Lewis, a historian at the Huntington Library in California, in a marvellous new book. This arboreal adventure takes you up the trunk of the mighty ceiba ...

But how exactly do we understand and use these devices? Tree diagrams have been used in evolutionary biology since the time of Charles Darwin. Therefore, one might assume that, by now, most ...

Every tree tells a story, but some are beyond eloquent, holding memories, embodying belief, marking sorrow. We hold trees in our imagination, where they grow in strange, wonderful ways in forests ...

It’s autumn, and that means the leaves on the trees are turning beautiful shades of yellow and red, before falling off entirely. It provides cheap entertainment for people and pets. It’s a way ...

A dozen centuries-old oak trees have been shortlisted for the annual Tree of the Year contest. Contenders include the 1,200-year-old Marton Oak in Cheshire, the Bowthorpe Oak in Lincolnshire ...

The Michael oak in Midlothian is among the contenders - it's name is probably a corruption of the Scots word "meikle", meaning big A dozen centuries-old oak trees have been shortlisted for the ...

Eliot is a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Trees, you’ve got to love them. We seem to talk about trees quite a bit these days, especially as a ...