developing solutions to today’s environmental challenges. On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have ...

James Johnston has been studying trees in the Blue Mountains that are older than America, and he’s disturbed by how many trees, after surviving for a few centuries or longer, died during a single ...

A dead heritage trees is marked for removal outside Olympus Caffe & Bakery on Castro Street in Mountain View on Sept. 19. Photo by Seeger Gray. For half a century, Mountain View has had an ordinance ...

A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. A total of around 100 mature trees were found growing in two village land forest reserves ...

Freezing winds, intense snow, and short growing seasons shape them. Ice and snow kill the growing tips (the apical buds), and fierce winds distort branches, killing windward limbs and resulting in ...

Many of us head for mountain forests as summer heat comes on - and a new book by a Tucson author could enrich your experience in the cool, green woods. "Mountain Trees of Southern Arizona: A Field ...

Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say. By Katherine Kornei A rumble, a deluge of snow and then silence — ...

BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) — There are nearly 100 old-growth trees across the Sandia Mountain range that dawn a medallion with nothing other than a date, a number, and a historic event engraved ...