In Panama’s tropical forests, trees are quietly rewriting the rules of survival. Faced with longer, harsher dry spells, they ...

Filaments of fungi intertwine with the tips of tree roots to form underground networks that seem to benefit both organisms: the filaments, called hyphae, break down minerals in the soil that trees can ...

The oldest trees in the forest carry outsized importance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient trees, the venerable sentinels ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

Raphael Trouve receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Craig Nitschke receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate ...

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Most important, of course, is to cut the emissions that are heating the planet. But beyond that, there are ways to help forests adapt. Heat lamps glow in an infrared image of a research station near ...