“The Berkshires has a long history of trees,” Rene Wendell says via phone. For the past seven years, Wendell has worked as a land steward in Western Massachusetts for The Nature Conservancy in their ...

Scientists have discovered 374-million-year-old tree fossils from the dawn of Earth’s forests — and found that these strange plants literally had to rip themselves apart as they grew. The fossils, ...

They didn't grow any larger or suddenly become sentient, but the trees outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are definitely acting weird, according to a new study published earlier this ...

Some forests around the world are known for more than just their natural beauty. They carry strange stories of people who ...

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Have you noticed a strange growth in your cedar trees? What you may be seeing is a disease called cedar apple rust. The growth is called a gall. These galls are light brown, reddish or chocolate brown ...

Every community in South Texas in the 19th century had its hanging tree and the language was filled with veiled euphemisms to hide the reality of what were often acts of coldblooded murder. Hanging ...

A black man named Otis Byrd was found hanging from a tree last week in a rural section of western Mississippi. A quick search of the Internet shows that this was the second time, as far as we know, ...