The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

Researchers hope the introduction of forest soil and the thousands of fungal spores and other microbes living within it will provide over time a needed boost to trees planted in compact, ...

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Forests planted with many different tree species have substantially higher aboveground carbon stocks and greater carbon fluxes than monocultures, shows a study. For the study, researchers analyzed ...

A fossil of a 350-million-year-old tree was discovered with an unusually bulging top, created by hundreds of near-perfectly preserved leaves surrounding its trunk, that appears straight out of a Dr.

A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term "rescue strategy" is unlikely to save them from the impacts of climate ...

Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy. When you ...

When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The Christmas tree feels like a tradition from time immemorial—and in some ways it is.

An area of ecologically intact and biodiverse grassland larger than France is endangered by an NGO-fueled push to plant as many trees as possible. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 15, 2024 2:00 PM EST ...