A broken steel grate may remove one of the city’s most iconic landmarks— the ‘chicken bone’ outside Trenton Transit Center. The three-foot high trunk of a dead tree has for years guarded the station’s ...

Scientists have mapped microbe populations in human guts, deep-sea ecosystems and even clouds. Yet the microbial communities inside tree trunks have remained largely unseen until now. For a recent ...

The Cache Creek Nature Preserve held a ‘Tree Trunk or Treat’ Saturday evening, featuring booths from around 10 environmental organizations, including those from UC Davis, that gave children and adults ...

These brothers were out in the woods where it had been raining heavily. They came across a fallen tree that they used to play on growing up. The two brothers took turns breaking pieces off of the tree ...

One of the best things about gardening is seeing all the wildlife flock to your yard when the plants begin to bloom. But when those summer blooms begin to fade, it doesn't have to mean the end of ...

Across the UK, gardeners whisper about a new way to handle shears. The shift promises healthier trees and calmer weekends. A ...

Trees grow one tree ring annually, which stores radiocarbon, so these sudden spikes are recorded in their rings and can be used to pinpoint a specific calendar year. Assuming the Mitchell Log remained ...

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There are so many reasons to love dogs, from the way they jump for joy when they see their favorite person to their contented sighs as they curl up for a long nap. One of my favorite things about dogs ...

The Scots pines that are thought to have largely covered the country thousands of years ago are greatly reduced, but just how big the forest memorialized in Roman texts was is not clear. A view of ...

Sudden floods, rising sea levels, devastating droughts, wildfires… Climate disasters have combined on this island of five ...

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