A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

Highly detailed 3D scans of dense tropical rain forest plots are enabling precise estimates of tree structure, volume and ...

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature ...

For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during thunderstorms. A new study describes the near-invisible sparkles appearing ...

You probably aren’t watering or pruning the 75-foot oak or maple in the front yard, but mature trees aren’t maintenance free.

Abstract: Large tree structured optimization problems can be solved efficiently with decomposition methods. We present a parallel and distributed Java implementation and compare a synchronous version ...

A female doctor was mysteriously found dead and possibly naked inside a freezer at a Dollar Tree store in Miami, Florida, on Sunday, according to police and media reports. An employee at the discount ...

A mother of two and accomplished anesthesiologist was found dead inside the walk-in freezer of a Dollar Tree store in Florida, according to authorities and reports. Police officers responded to the ...

Decorated by the Skunk Train and towering over 200 feet, the living tree in Fort Bragg and Willits tops a new global ranking. Kristine Hansen is a design, food and drink, and travel writer based in ...

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...