Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...

Lightning is one of nature's most destructive forces, responsible for killing millions of trees every year. But in the rainforests of Panama, one species has flipped that danger into a powerful ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Planting trees has often been seen as a way to combat climate change, but recent research suggests that this method of carbon sequestration isn’t ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...