Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and color, ...

DARIEN -- Most people walk past trees and plants every day without paying much attention to the biological diversity surrounding them. "A lot of people walk through, and all they see is a tree," said ...

What we discovered has changed how we think about trees. Bark was long assumed to be largely biologically inert in relation ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

Australian researchers have discovered a hidden climate superpower of trees. Their bark harbors trillions of microbes that ...

A walk in the woods this time of year is different. It’s quiet and monochromatic. Other than the crunch of your shoes on frozen ground, there isn’t as much to see or hear as a forest in spring or ...

The reddish gray-brown bark of the red oak tree with its darker vertical markings is one of the key features to identifying the tree in winter. (Clay Wollney) Leaves are the most useful and frequently ...

Identifying trees in winter doesn’t stop at bark and buds. In this second part, we explore additional features and techniques ...

If you are looking for a tree with white bark for your garden or trying to identify a tree that you have recently seen, this page is designed to help. White-barked trees have an otherworldly beauty ...

Learn how the trillions of microbes harbored in tree bark can help scrub the air of greenhouse and toxic gases.